Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Keywords
COVID-19, Depression, Pregnant Women, Thinking Healthy Program, Peru
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2023.45
Abstract
Socios En Salud (SES) implemented the Thinking Healthy program (THP) to support women with perinatal depression before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Lima Norte. We carried out an analysis of the in-person (5 modules) and remote (1 module) THP intervention. Depression was detected using PHQ-9, and THP sessions were delivered in women with a score (PHQ-9 ≥ 5). Depression was reassessed and pre- and post-scores were compared. In the pre-pandemic cohort, perinatal depression was 25.4% (47/185), 47 women received THP and 27 were reassessed (57.4%), and the PHQ-9 score median decreased from 8 to 2, p < 0.001. In the pandemic cohort, perinatal depression was 47.5% (117/247), 117 women received THP and 89 were reassessed (76.1%), and the PHQ-9 score median decreased from 7 to 2, p < 0.001. THP’s modalities helped to reduce perinatal depression. Pregnant women who received a module remotely also reduced depression.
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Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, v. 10, art. e64
Scholar Commons Citation
Aguilar, Margot; Contreras, Carmen; Raviola, Giuseppe; Sepúlveda, Alejandra; Espinoza, Maricielo; Moran, Leydi; Ramos, Lourdes; Peinado, Jesús; Lecca, Leonid; Pedersen, Gloria A.; Kohrt, Brandon A.; and Galea, Jerome T., "Perinatal Depression and Implementation of the “Thinking Healthy Program” Support Intervention in an Impoverished Setting of Lima, Peru: Assessment Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2023). Social Work Faculty Publications. 216.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/sok_facpub/216
