Utility of early, short psychological care for women who experience early miscarriage: protocol for the randomized, controlled MisTher trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Around one in ten women will have a miscarriage in their lifetime. Miscarriage is often considered a trivial event by caregivers, but it is associated with a high burden of psychological morbidity, especially during the first 6 months. There is no validated psychological management strategy for women who have had a miscarriage. The MisTher study aims to evaluate the utility of early, short psychological care for women who have had early miscarriage, in terms of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Methods

This is a prospective, multicenter, randomized, controlled, superiority study. In total, 932 women who have experienced early miscarriage (spontaneous interruption of pregnancy prior to 14 weeks of gestation) will be randomly assigned to either

SUBMITTER: Barbe C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10625184 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature