Key Messages

• Postpartum depression is a significant public health problem with a profound impact on women, their offspring and the healthcare system.
• Organizations focused on maternal mental health are in urgent need of safe, efficient, economical, evidence-based, and scalable means of treating PPD during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The 1-Day CBT-based workshops for PPD are an innovative treatment model that use an accepted means of delivery (online), a self-referral option, an experimental design, a novel treatment that respects women’s preferences/needs, and an intervention that can improve anxiety, the most common PPD comorbidity.

Lay Summary

To date we have delivered 7 sets of online 1-Day Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-Based Workshops for postpartum depression as part of this study. Participants have self-referred to participate in the workshop after learning about the study through community organizations, public health nurses, or through social media advertisements. Baseline data has been collected for 271 participants and study recruitment has ended; 223 participants have completed the study.

Author(s)

• Nominated Principal Applicant: Ryan Van Lieshout, McMaster University

Population

Children, Youth and Families, Chronic Disease and/or Mental Illness

Language

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