INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION

产后抑郁症的人际关系心理治疗

• 批准号: 2698258
• 负责人: MICHAEL William O'HARA
• 金额: $ 23.15万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-08-01 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2698258
• 关键词: behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; child psychology; disease /disorder proneness /risk; dyadic interaction; female; human subject; human therapy evaluation; infant human (0-1 year); interpersonal relations; longitudinal human study; major depression; mental disorder diagnosis; mother child interaction; postpartum; preschool child (1-5); psychological stressor; psychotherapy; relapse /recurrence; social adjustment

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): The purposes of this research are: (1) to evaluate interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) as a treatment for postpartum depression; (2) to evaluate the effect of IPT on a) women's adjustment in their relationships with their spouses, children, families, and friends, b) the women's responsiveness to their infants, and c) the infants' affective expression and emotional regulation; (3) to determine the rate of recurrence of depression in successfully treated women over an 18 month period following the end of treatment; and (4) to evaluate a clinical-social model of depression recurrence in successfully treated women. A sample of 104 postpartum depressed women is being randomly assigned to immediate or delayed (a waiting list control) IPT. Treatment will consist of 12 to 16 sessions (over 12 weeks) with a private therapist. Assessment of women before, during and after therapy with several measures of depression and social adjustment will be undertaken. After the treatment trial, all women will be followed for 18 months with assessments of depression and social adjustment occurring every 3 months. Assessments of children will take place at pre-therapy, post-therapy, and at 2 years of age. We expect that women receiving interpersonal psychotherapy will evidence significantly lower levels of depression, higher levels of social adjustment than women in the waiting list control condition, and be more responsive to their infants. We also expect that approximately 40% to 50% of successfully treated women will experience a recurrence of their depression during the 18 month follow-up period. We expect that previous history of depression and other psychiatric disorders will be associated with increased risk of depression recurrence. The ongoing research should prepare for later studies to (a) prevent depression recurrence in women successfully treated for postpartum depression and (b) to improve the social adjustment of young children by reducing their exposure to maternal depression. The final purpose of this proposed research is to evaluate the contribution of maternal depression in the first two years of children's lives to their adjustment at age 2. Finally, we expect that children whose mothers were chronically depressed during their first two years of life will show poorer adjustment at 2 years of age.

描述（申请人摘要）：本研究的目的是：(1)