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Participants
Start Date
January 31, 2005
Primary Completion Date
March 31, 2009
Study Completion Date
March 31, 2009
Group interpersonal therapy (IPT)
Group IPT will include weekly treatment sessions with a psychiatrist for 12 weeks. The sessions will focus on overcoming relationship problems associated with depression. The first two and last sessions will be alone with the psychiatrist and the remaining sessions will be with a group of five to eight other pregnant women.
Treatment as usual (TAU)
TAU will include referrals to outpatient treatment, which may include cognitive behavioral psychotherapy, insight-oriented psychotherapy, and/or antidepressant medication. TAU participants receiving psychotherapy will attend 12 weekly treatment sessions comparable to the IPT group sessions; treatment for TAU participants receiving medication for their depression may last longer than 12 weeks.
Columbia University Medical Center, New York
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
NIH
New York State Psychiatric Institute
OTHER