Mom Supporting Mom: Effective Peer Support Intervention for Women with Postpartum Psychological Distress

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F25%3A43921677" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/25:43921677 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11110/25:10500334 RIV/00216208:11120/25:43928704 RIV/00216208:11210/25:10500334

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.copmadrid.org/pi/art/pi2025a12" target="_blank" >https://journals.copmadrid.org/pi/art/pi2025a12</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5093/pi2025a12" target="_blank" >10.5093/pi2025a12</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mom Supporting Mom: Effective Peer Support Intervention for Women with Postpartum Psychological Distress

Original language description

Objective: Untreated perinatal mental health disorders can have serious consequences for the whole family system. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of peer support intervention in improving postpartum psychological distress. Method: We evaluated a remote peer support intervention, Mom Supports Mom, in a randomized controlled trial. The primary study outcome was the level of depressive symptoms at week six after delivery. Secondary outcomes included levels of anxiety symptoms, quality of life and the presence of psychiatric disorders at week six after delivery. Trial protocol was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04639752). Results: The study sample consisted of 315 participants in the control group, and 173 participants in the intervention group. The Mom Supports Mom intervention was associated with decreased depressive (Cohen&apos;s d = 0.30, p = .003) and anxiety symptomatology (d = 0.29, p =.003) at week six after birth compared to the control group. Mom Supports Mom intervention was also associated with an increase in health-related quality of life at week six after birth (d = 0.27, p =.008). No statistically significant difference was found between the groups in the presence of psychiatric diagnoses at six weeks postpartum. Conclusions: Peer intervention Mom Supports Mom is effective in reducing depressive and anxiety symptomatology in postpartum women and improving their health-related quality of life. Mom Supports Mom can serve as a low-intensity approach that is effective for mild illness and has the potential to be scalable.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

<a href="/en/project/NU21J-09-00064" target="_blank" >NU21J-09-00064: Effectiveness of remote peer support in prevention of postpartum depression: a randomized controlled trial.</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Psychosocial Intervention

ISSN

1132-0559

e-ISSN

2173-4712

Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

ES - SPAIN

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

151-160

UT code for WoS article

001541395500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105016731799