Insika Yomama Project (Joint Global Health Trials)
Abstract
the aim is to conduct a cluster RCT to test an integrated home-based intervention programme that jointly treats depression and enhances parenting. The intervention, delivered during pregnancy and the postnatal period, comprises a combination
of behavioural activation (BA) therapy to treat the symptoms of depression and a parenting programme to improve maternal responsiveness to infants. BA is a structured therapeutic approach that focuses on increasing behaviours that are rewarding, improving mood and quality of life, and reducing behaviours that maintain or worsen depression such as passivity or avoidance and rumination. It has been shown to be as effective as CBT. This focus on behaviour rather than beliefs makes BA culturally acceptable.
