What Were We Thinking! An innovative psycho-educational intervention for first time mothers, fathers and newborns

A non-randomised controlled trial, conducted in sequential consecutive cohorts, to evaluate the effectiveness of a psychoeducational group intervention for first time mothers and fathers of newborn babies, for the prevention of common postpartum mood disorders.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12605000567628

Acronym

WWWT!

Enrollment

439

Registered

2005-09-30

Start date

2006-02-06

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Psycho-educational intervention is a helf-day seminar conducted by trained facilitator with two components: infant soothing and settling strategies, and language, concepts and skills for re-negotiation of the unpaid workload between couples and adjustment to parenthood

Study design

Allocation

Non-randomised trial

Intervention model

Other

Primary purpose

Prevention

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

0 to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Participants in this trial will be English-speaking partnered women who have very recently given birth to a first baby. Women low proficiency in speaking and reading English, or who have premature babies or infants admitted to the Special Care Nursery or Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, who have given birth to triplets or higher multiples, or who are not currently partnered will not be recruited to the trial because the nature of the intervention is not appropriate to their needs.

Exclusion criteria

No exclusion criteria

Outcome results