Feasibility of Implementing a Mental Health Care Program and Home-based Training for Mothers of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in an Urban Population in Bangladesh
Maternal Depression
About this trial
This is an interventional health services research trial for Maternal Depression focused on measuring Maternal depression, ASD, Home based training program
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Survey for the maternal depression
Inclusion criteria:
- Managers, special educators, psychologists, therapists, depressed mothers, and family members of the depressed mothers
- Psychiatrists, Pediatricians, medical doctors, working in the collaborating medical institutions who are involved with ASD care.
- Parents of children with ASD enrolled in other schools that offer ASD services.
- Policy makers who are involved in the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Family Welfare, Autism cell etc. for developing the national strategic plan and policies for strengthening ASD care in Bangladesh.
Intervention Phase:
Inclusion criteria:
We will identify those mothers who would be diagnosed as having a current major depressive episode (MDE) at the baseline survey as assessed by PHQ-9 and SCID, and willing to participate in the intervention for the next 6 months.
Exclusion Criteria:
Survey for the maternal depression
- Participants who are too ill to commute
- Participants who are mentally compromised to give a voluntary consent for her own.
Intervention Phase:
Any mother diagnosed as having a severe forms of depression with any suicidal ideation or unsafe thoughts will be referred for urgent hospital based mental health services in the community (as per standard of care and ethical obligations), and will not be invited to participate in the study or will be withdrawn from the study if such a condition develops in the course of intervention.
Sites / Locations
- Awf, SwacRecruiting