Integrating WHO thinking healthy programme for maternal mental health into routine antenatal care in China: a randomized-controlled pilot trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women with perinatal depression and their children are at increased risk of poor health outcomes. Integrating evidence based non-stigmatizing interventions within existing health systems is crucial to reducing psychosocial distress during pregnancy and preventing perinatal depression. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed cognitive-behavior therapy-based Thinking Healthy Programme (THP), delivered by antenatal nurses in China.

Methods

A two-arm pilot randomized controlled pilot trial was conducted to assess the feasibility and of the adapted Chinese version of the Thinking Healthy Programme (THP) among various stakeholders. We recruited pregnant women between 25- and 34-weeks' gestation from two pregnancy scho

SUBMITTER: Nisar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11743642 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature