Preventing postnatal depression in new mothers using telephone peer support: protocol for the DAISY (Depression and AnxIety peer Support studY) multi-centre randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Postnatal depression affects up to one in six new mothers in Australia each year, with significant impacts on the woman and her family. Prevention strategies can be complicated by a woman's reluctance to seek professional help. Peer support is a promising but inadequately tested early intervention. Very few trials have reported on the efficacy of peer support in the perinatal period and no study has been undertaken in Australia. We will explore if proactive telephone-based peer (mother-to-mother) support, provided to women identified as being at high risk of postnatal depression, impacts on clinically significant depressive symptomatology at 6 months postpartum.

Methods and analysis

This is a protocol for a single-blinded, multi-centre, randomised controlled tri

SUBMITTER: Shafiei T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11097877 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature