Clinical trial NCT01453790: Parent Specific Depression Education and Motivation
Official title: Effectiveness of Parent Specific Depression Education and Motivation on Intent to Seek Follow-Up Care for Potential Depression Symptoms
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Depressive Symptoms
Keywords: depression
treatment
motivation to seek follow up
Lead sponsor: University of California, Davis
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Children's Miracle Network
First posted: 2011-10-18
Enrollment: 104
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: This project is an investigator-initiated, randomized-controlled trial of the effectiveness of written and verbal parent-specific depression education and motivational advice in increasing participants self-disclosed intention to seek follow-up care for possible depression symptoms. The control condition is written and verbal general depression education and advice. Hypothesis: the office-based experimental intervention of written and verbal parent-specific depression and emotional health education and motivational advice increases intention to seek follow-up services for emotional health or depression, when compared to written and verbal general depression education and advice.

Detailed description: Maternal depression is a common problem, debilitating for mothers and affecting parenting practices with negative effects on the behavior, development, and physical health of children. The value of identifying and treating maternal depression for child development and well-being is well documented. Unfortunately, there are multiple barriers to the recognition and treatment of maternal depression. This is particularly problematic in younger women, as they are less often seen for health care. The overall objective of this project is to test whether the uptake of follow-up recommendations for potential depression by mothers identified by screening in clinical settings is improved by parent-specific targetting of depression education and motivational advice.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Parent of a child between the ages of 2 days and 12 years who is a patient of the UC Davis Pediatric Clinic.
* Primary, female caregiver
* Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless or little interest or pleasure in doing things.
* Not currently receiving care from a mental health practitioner.
* Comfortable speaking English without an interpreter.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Parent of a child younger than 2 days or older than 12 years.
* Dad, Foster parent, or other short term guardian.
* Currently in treatment with a mental health practitioner.
* Limited English Proficiency

Primary outcomes:
measure: Depression Follow-Up Care Seeking
timeFrame: at 2 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Intention to Seek Depression Follow-Up Care
timeFrame: at 2 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Sacramento
country: United States
facility: UC Davis Medical Center, General Pediatrics
state: California
Study officials:
References:
citation: Fernandez y Garcia E, Joseph J, Wilson MD, Hinton L, Simon G, Ludman E, Scott F, Kravitz RL. Pediatric-based intervention to motivate mothers to seek follow-up for depression screens: The Motivating Our Mothers (MOM) trial. Acad Pediatr. 2015 May-Jun;15(3):311-8. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2014.11.008.