Home Visitation in Connecticut and Clinical Trial on In
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Transcript Home Visitation in Connecticut and Clinical Trial on In
Nurturing Families Network
Depression Improvement Study
The Connecticut Children’s Trust Fund, DSS
Center for Social Research, UofH
UCONN Health Center, Department of Psychiatry
The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Child Health and Development Institute
88% do not
get mental
health treatment
44.2% are depressed
in 1st year of service
Ammerman, Putnam, et al., in press, Child Abuse & Neglect
Inclusionary:
Participants are
≥16 years old
Baby 1<12 months
EPDS ≥11
MDD using SCID
Study Design
Screening: EPDS ≥11
44 (26%) out of 167
Eligibility/Pre-treatment Assessment
SCID Diagnosis of MDD
19 (45%) out of 42 (2 refusals)
Exclusionary:
Non-NFN participants
<16 years old
Baby <1, >12 months
EPDS <11
No MDD using SCID
Substance dependence
Psychosis
Current suicidality
randomization
IH-CBT (n=12)
15 sessions + booster
Ongoing home visitation
HVAU (n=7)
Community Resources
Ongoing home visitation
Post-treatment Assessment
(n=1)
3 Month Follow-Up Assessment
Role of Home Visitor:
Our Main Partner
Screen moms using the Edinburgh
Introduce the study
Provide connection/communication to
mother/family
Make engaging and identifying this subgroup
possible
Nurturing Families Network
versus
Every Child Succeeds
Racial/Ethnic
groups
Undocumented
More
families
variation in geographic location
(inner city and rural)
What are the signs of depression?
(Focus Group Analyses, 2007)
“Well, the signs are lack of interest in things. Because when
I first met her she was pregnant, but she was involved in so
many different programs. But now she doesn’t do much.
She goes to school but she rarely goes even though she
lives like in [neighborhood]. She just doesn’t do it. She
doesn’t get out much. What I first brought out was like a
checklist, like I did it in like a conversation manner to ask
her how things were going or did she notice that she had a
change in appetite or she was doing things differently. And
she did. So I didn’t want to like push the subject every
single home visit because then she would stop opening the
door.”
What are the signs of depression?
(Focus Group Analyses, 2007)
“…she is very depressed. She has panic attacks. She was
a victim of child abuse. She was sexually abused when she
was a child by a relative and then later on by her mother’s
boyfriend. She told her mother. Her mother never paid any
attention. Her father is not in the picture. She managed to
start college.”
Experience of Major Depression
Sad, depressed feeling
Loss of interest in activities
Change in appetite
Insomnia; hypersomnia
Psychomotor agitation/retardation
Fatigue/tired, all day, nearly everyday
Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt
Difficulty concentrating and/or indecisiveness
Suicidal ideation
Individual & Family Context
Past trauma: physical/sexual abuse
Abandonment/rejection by family
Social isolation (i.e., emotional isolation)
Very low sense of worth (often hidden)
Different patterns among subgroups
“Ineligible” Mothers
History of depression
Multiple, complex issues
Young-young moms (many changes)
Have emotional support
Stable home situation
Need therapy too
Progress in therapy:
SUCCESSESS AND CHALLENGES
Moms
available for sessions;flexibility of
therapists, positive feedback from moms
Moms enjoy learning CBT skills;participate
in home practice, i.e. Activity Schedules
and Thought Records
Moms responding positively to progress
made on “ladder of success”; decrease in
BDI II scores
Challenges as in all home visiting: not at
home, pre-occupied, interruptions
Lack
Therapeutic Themes
of entitlement (gender x depression)
For help/services
Support/attention from others
Time/Space
Ambivalence
in general & impact on
treatment response/approach to
intervention (benefit of motivational strategies, value of assessing
“readiness”)
Emerging
Typology of Maternal
Depression
Less severe, high readiness for change, fewer complexities, rapid &
dramatic improvement
More severe, high complexity, high trauma, intergenerational patterns,
slower response to treatment, challenges to engagement
DISCUSSION
What
do you (participating staff) think
are successes and challenges so
far?
What
might be considered for a team
model in future?