Mental Health, Parenting
Conditions
Keywords
Mental health, Group intervention, Spanish
Brief summary
This project focuses on the implementation and preliminary evaluation of Mama Empoderada, a brief 12-week group intervention that is based on a parenting program (Mom Power). The researcher's hypotheses are that: 1. Participants will show high rates of fidelity, acceptability, and satisfaction with the intervention 2. Participants will experience decreases in depression, anxiety, isolation, parenting stress, and parent-child interaction problems from pre- to post-intervention, as well as increases in parenting sense of competence.
Detailed description
The study team is from the University of Michigan. The intervention will take place at La Casa Amiga in Pontiac, Michigan.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALMama Empoderada
Mama Empoderada focuses on the five pillars of the original Mom Power intervention, and evidence-based treatment that enhances maternal mental health, parenting, and the mother-child relationship. The pillars are: psychoeducation on attachment-based parenting, supporting mother-child relationships, self-care, enhancing social support, and connection to community resources.
Sponsors
University of Michigan
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. Identifies as a mother of a child ages 6 or younger; 2. Spanish-speaker; 3. available and interested in participating in an in-person or virtual maternal wellbeing and parenting group intervention at La Casa Amiga. Eligibility criteria will be confirmed by each participant through a brief online screening and a phone call with research staff.
Exclusion criteria
* Participants who are high risk for suicide based on Columbia Suicide Rating Scale
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Maternal Depression | Baseline, up to 21 days post-intervention | 9 items rated on a 4-point frequency scale (Sum score range = 0 to 27; higher scores indicate more depressive symptoms) |
| Maternal Anxiety | Baseline, up to 21 days post-intervention | 7 items rated on a 4-point frequency scale (Sum score range = 0 to 21; higher scores indicate more anxiety symptoms) |
| Maternal Isolation | Baseline, up to 21 days post-intervention | Assessed using the UCLA-3 Loneliness Scale 3 items rated on a 3-point frequency scale (Sum score range = 1 to 9; higher scores indicate more loneliness) |
| Maternal Parenting Stress | Baseline, up to 21 days post-intervention | Assessed using the Parenting Stress Inventory - Short Form- 12-item Parental Distress subscale and 12-item Parent-Child Dysfunctional Interaction subscale, rated on a 5-point agreement scale (Range = 12 - 60; higher scores indicate more distress or dysfunction) |
| Mother Child Interaction Problems | Baseline, up to 21 days post-intervention | Assessed using the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale-16 items rated on a 6-point agreement scale (Sum score range = 16 to 96; higher scores indicate higher parenting self-efficacy) |
Countries
United States
Contacts
CONTACTOlivia Oates
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORCecilia Martinez-Torteya, PhD
University of Michigan
Outcome results
None listed