An observational study in Depression, Postpartum, sponsored by University of Colorado, Boulder. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-03-31.
Sponsored by University of Colorado, Boulder · Observational
This study, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, will examine birth and the early postpartum period (BEPP) as a transformative life experience that may shift women's experience of emotion in such ways as to a) support enhanced other-oriented emotions and b) underlie risk or resilience from psychopathology.
Specifically, the study will investigate the extent to which women can accurately have knowledge about and predict changes in self- and other-oriented emotion processes associated with BEPP. The investigators will also characterize the extent to which BEPP changes self- and other-oriented emotion processes and self- and other-oriented social behaviors. Further, the investigators will identify distinct trajectories of change in cognitive processes and self- and other-oriented emotion processes related to BEPP, and examine how those trajectories are associated with psychological adjustment (e.g., risk and relapse of psychopathology). Finally, the investigators will identify which particular features of BEPP are related to distinct patterns of change in self- and other-oriented emotion processes.
528 studies on the registry are indexed under Depression, Postpartum; 124 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 150 is below the median of 200 across 88 observational studies indexed under Depression, Postpartum.
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This study will include up to 200 pregnant adult women over the age of 18 across the United States. Two roughly equal groups of participants will be recruited: women with a history of major depressive disorder, currently in remission (MDD) and healthy controls with no current or lifetime history of mental illness (CTL).
Exclusion Criteria:
Women in this group will have experienced at least one episode of major depression in their lifetime, but no episodes in the two months prior to study enrollment.
Women in this group will never have experienced any Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition Axis I psychological disorder.
Occurrence of mood episodes and anxiety disorders
Assessed via interview
Time frame: Throughout study (pregnancy to 6 months postpartum)
Mood and anxiety symptoms
Assessed via questionnaires
Time frame: Throughout study (pregnancy to 6 months postpartum)
Emotion reactivity and regulation
Assessed via questionnaires, experimental tasks, and physiological measurement
Time frame: Throughout study (pregnancy to 6 months postpartum)
Empathic accuracy
Assessed via experimental tasks
Time frame: Throughout study (pregnancy to 6 months postpartum)
Prosocial behavior
Assessed via questionnaires and experimental tasks
Time frame: Throughout study (pregnancy to 6 months postpartum)
Well-being and social support
Assessed via questionnaires
Time frame: Throughout study (pregnancy to 6 months postpartum)
Parenting sensitivity, efficacy, stress, bond with infant
Assessed via questionnaires and behavioral observation
Time frame: Throughout study (pregnancy to 6 months postpartum)
Plan to share: No
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