Cognitive-behavioral therapy-based intervention to treat symptoms of anxiety in pregnancy in a prenatal clinic using non-specialist providers in Pakistan: design of a randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Prenatal anxiety is a prevalent condition that is harmful for women and a strong predictor of postpartum depression. This trial assesses an intervention initiated in early pregnancy to mid pregnancy among women with clinical or subclinical symptoms of anxiety in Pakistan. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: Happy Mother, Healthy Baby (HMHB) is a phase three, two-arm, single-blind, individual randomised clinical trial conducted in the outpatient department of Holy Family Hospital, a large public tertiary care facility affiliated with Rawalpindi Medical University (RMU). Pregnant women (enrolled at ≤22 weeks of gestation) receive six individual HMHB sessions based on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and relaxation techniques that are administered by non-specialist providers a

SUBMITTER: Surkan PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7200036 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature