Smartphone-assisted online brief cognitive behavioral therapy to treat maternal depression: findings of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the efficacy of smartphone-assisted online brief cognitive behavioral therapy (b-CBT) to treat maternal depression compared to online brief CBT plus an active control app.

Methods

A randomized controlled trial was conducted. Assessments were performed at baseline (T0), midpoint (T1, week 4-5), post-treatment (T2, week 8), and follow-up (T3, 2-month postnatal follow-up) by blinded interviewers. The primary outcome was depression measured by the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) at T2. We also assessed anxiety, stress, sleep quality, well-being, physical activity, treatment response, and offspring child behavior problems.

Results

Eighty-one participants were randomized to the intervention (n=37) or active control (n=44) groups. Seventy-one pa

SUBMITTER: Fatori D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9976920 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature