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MOSAIC (MOthers' AdvocateS In the Community) for Pregnant Women and Mothers of Children Under 5 With Experience of Intimate Partner Violence (MOSAIC Plus)

Primary Purpose

Intimate Partner Violence, Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Status
Not yet recruiting
Phase
Not Applicable
Locations
United States
Study Type
Interventional
Intervention
MOSAIC Plus
MOSAIC
Sponsored by
Michigan State University
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Eligibility
Locations
Arms
Outcomes
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About this trial

This is an interventional treatment trial for Intimate Partner Violence focused on measuring Intimate partner violence, Women, Mothers, Pregnant

Eligibility Criteria

18 Years - undefined (Adult, Older Adult)FemaleDoes not accept healthy volunteers

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnant and/or are mothers of children under 5 and r
  • Report IPV experiences in the past 6 months (as assessed by Composite Abuse Scale)
  • Aged 18 or above,
  • Have elevated depressive and/or PTSD symptoms as assessed by Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) with a cutoff point of ≥9, and/or the Davidson Trauma Scale (DTS) with a cut-off point of ≥40.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Cannot provide the name and contact information of at least two locator persons,
  • Do not have access to any telephone,
  • Cannot understand English well enough to understand the consent form or assessment instruments when they are read aloud

Sites / Locations

  • YWCA Flint

Arms of the Study

Arm 1

Arm 2

Arm Type

Experimental

Active Comparator

Arm Label

MOSAIC Plus

MOSAIC

Arm Description

"Mother AdvocateS In the Community (MOSAIC) Plus" intervention to reduce depressive and PTSD symptoms and prevent additional IPV among pregnant women and mothers with children under 5 experiencing IPV. The MOSAIC Plus intervention will integrate IPT principles and skills into the MOSAIC intervention in order to expand it to address consequences of IPV, including depression and PTSD symptoms.

Those in the active comparator will receive the "Mother AdvocateS In the Community (MOSAIC) Plus" intervention to reduce depressive and PTSD symptoms and prevent additional IPV among pregnant women and mothers with children under 5 experiencing IPV.

Outcomes

Primary Outcome Measures

acceptability
We will evaluate the acceptability of the proposed recruitment methods, research design, intervention training methods, and of delivering the MOSAIC Plus and MOSAIC interventions by using End of Treatment Questionnaire.
Satisfaction with care
We will evaluate the feasibility of the proposed recruitment methods, research design, intervention training methods, and of delivering the MOSAIC Plus and MOSAIC interventions by using Client Satisfaction Questionnaire.
Quality of Working Relationship
We will evaluate therapeutic alliance by using Working Alliance Inventory-Short Revised (WAI-SR)
Reduction in depressive symptoms
We will measure reduction in depressive symptoms as assessed by Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9).
Reduction in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms
We will measure reduction in posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms by using Davidson Trauma Scale.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Intimate Partner Violence
We will measure reduction in subsequent intimate partner violence by using Composite Abuse Scale.
Effectiveness Obtaining Resources
We will measure effectiveness in obtaining resources by using Effectiveness Obtaining Resources (EOR) scale.
Perceived Social Support
We will measure improvements in perceived social support by using The RAND social support scale (Medical Outcome Study-Social Support Survey MOS-SS)
Functioning
We will use the WHO Disability Assessment schedule-12 to assess mental health related disability.
Self-care and self-worth
We will use the self-care and self-worth scale to assess changes in self-care.
General health and wellbeing
We will use the SF-36 to assess changes in general health and wellbeing.

Full Information

First Posted
October 22, 2021
Last Updated
July 24, 2023
Sponsor
Michigan State University
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1. Study Identification

Unique Protocol Identification Number
NCT05106361
Brief Title
MOSAIC (MOthers' AdvocateS In the Community) for Pregnant Women and Mothers of Children Under 5 With Experience of Intimate Partner Violence
Acronym
MOSAIC Plus
Official Title
MOSAIC (MOthers' AdvocateS In the Community) for Pregnant Women and Mothers of Children Under 5 With Experience of Intimate Partner Violence: Randomized Trial
Study Type
Interventional

2. Study Status

Record Verification Date
July 2023
Overall Recruitment Status
Not yet recruiting
Study Start Date
January 3, 2024 (Anticipated)
Primary Completion Date
September 30, 2024 (Anticipated)
Study Completion Date
December 20, 2024 (Anticipated)

3. Sponsor/Collaborators

Responsible Party, by Official Title
Principal Investigator
Name of the Sponsor
Michigan State University

4. Oversight

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product
No

5. Study Description

Brief Summary
The purpose of this R34 exploratory research proposal is to conduct formative work for a larger randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the effectiveness of the "Mother AdvocateS In the Community (MOSAIC) Plus" intervention to reduce depressive and PTSD symptoms and prevent additional IPV among pregnant women and mothers with children under 5 experiencing IPV. The MOSAIC Plus intervention will integrate IPT principles and skills into the MOSAIC intervention in order to expand it to address consequences of IPV, including depression and PTSD symptoms. The proposed study will enroll pregnant women who report experience of IPV in the past 6 months, and who screen positive for elevated depressive and/or PTSD symptoms. The intervention lasts 6 months after enrollment.
Detailed Description
Violence against women is a global human rights concern and a significant public health challenge; 1 in 3 three women experience lifetime physical and/or sexual violence.1 As many as 5.3 million U.S. women report experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV; referring to sexual or physical violence by current or former partners) annually2. Depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are the two most common mental health consequences of IPV. In turn, developing depressive and PTSD symptoms after experiencing IPV increases future risk of IPV3. IPV is also associated with chronic physical health problems4,5 and self-harm 6. Motherhood and pregnancy increase the risk for prolonged exposure to physical, psychological and sexual IPV7. With as many as 4% to 8% of pregnant women reporting IPV during pregnancy, IPV can start or worsen during the perinatal period8. Previous and current experience of IPV is strongly associated with poor physical health, mental health and obstetric outcomes9,10; leading to increased utilization of health services11 even after the IPV ends12. There are very few interventions that effectively reduce IPV among pregnant women and mothers with children under 5 who report IPV13-15. One of them, Mother AdvocateS In the Community (MOSAIC) forms the basis of this proposal16. No existing intervention addresses the depressive and PTSD symptoms that often follow IPV, are associated with suffering and morbidity, and potentiate future IPV risk for pregnant women and mothers with children under 5 who report IPV. In fact, there are not any interventions for any group of women that effectively reduce both future IPV risk and common related mental health symptoms such as depression and PTSD. An integrated intervention that addresses elevated symptoms of maternal depression and PTSD while reducing subsequent IPV is needed. MOSAIC is a non-professional intervention delivered by mentor mothers from the community to reduce IPV in pregnant women and mothers with children under 517. The intervention combines elements of mentoring and IPV-specific support provided by mentor mothers. MOSAIC was also tested in a fully-powered RCT for pregnant women and mothers with children under 5 in Australia and found to reduce subsequent IPV15. However, it did not significantly improve depression, and PTSD symptoms were not evaluated. Given the suffering, morbidity, and additional risk of IPV conferred by depressive and PTSD symptoms, the proposed study will augment MOSAIC with principles of an evidence-based intervention to improve maternal mental health. Interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is the front-line treatment for maternal depression18 and has been found to reduce PTSD symptoms in the perinatal period19. IPT addresses maternal mental health by helping women increase their general social support systems and build communication skills and confidence to access needed resources and help. IPT can be effectively delivered by lay providers. This proposal will integrate IPT principles into MOSAIC to address both IPV and its mental health sequelae. The purpose of this R34 exploratory research proposal is to conduct formative work for a larger randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating the effectiveness of the "Mother AdvocateS In the Community (MOSAIC) Plus" intervention to reduce depressive and PTSD symptoms and prevent additional IPV among pregnant women and mothers with children under 5 experiencing IPV. The MOSAIC Plus intervention will integrate IPT principles and skills into the MOSAIC intervention in order to expand it to address consequences of IPV, including depression and PTSD symptoms. The proposed study will enroll pregnant women who report experience of IPV in the past 6 months, and who screen positive for elevated depressive and/or PTSD symptoms. The intervention lasts 9 months after enrollment. Women will be recruited from Obstetrics and Gynecological unit of the Hurley Medical Center and YWCA, Flint. The control condition will be the original MOSAIC intervention. Study assessments will take place at baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months. The development aims of this proposal are to: Enhance and expand the MOSAIC manual (designed to be delivered by lay providers) with lay-provider friendly IPT principles for reducing depressive and PTSD symptoms. Refine the manual, intervention, and study procedures using 6 focus groups: 3 groups with mothers who have experienced IPV in the past 6 months (n~20), 2 with potential mentor mothers (n~16), and 1 group with nurse-family partnership staff (n~8) Develop, implement, and evaluate the intervention training program. Improve the clarity, content, acceptability, and feasibility of the enhanced MOSAIC Plus intervention through a small open trial (n = 15) of mothers with past 6-month IPV experience The pilot study aims of this proposal are to: Conduct a pilot RCT in a sample of 40 mothers with IPV experience in the past 6 months to demonstrate the feasibility and acceptability of the proposed recruitment methods, research design, intervention training methods, and of delivering the MOSAIC Plus and MOSAIC interventions. As recommended by NIMH, we will also examine 95% confidence intervals around differences between the proposed intervention and MOSAIC for the following outcomes through 9 months after baseline: Mental health outcomes. Reduction in depressive (primary) and PTSD symptoms IPV outcomes. Decreased subsequent IPV over the 9 months measured by CAS Functioning outcomes. Improvement in functioning, self-care and general health and wellbeing Potential target mechanisms. Increased social support and effectiveness obtaining resources. Interventions to improve mental health challenges experienced by mothers who experienced IPV are of great public health significance. Reducing depressive and PTSD symptoms in women with the experience of IPV has significant public health benefits for mothers and their children.

6. Conditions and Keywords

Primary Disease or Condition Being Studied in the Trial, or the Focus of the Study
Intimate Partner Violence, Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Keywords
Intimate partner violence, Women, Mothers, Pregnant

7. Study Design

Primary Purpose
Treatment
Study Phase
Not Applicable
Interventional Study Model
Parallel Assignment
Model Description
The proposed study will enroll pregnant women who report experience of IPV in the past 6 months, and who screen positive for elevated depressive and/or PTSD symptoms. The intervention lasts 9 months after enrollment. Those in the intervention arm will receive MOSAIC Plus (an enhanced MOSAIC intervention that includes IPT) while those in the active control would receive MOSAIC intervention.
Masking
None (Open Label)
Allocation
Randomized
Enrollment
40 (Anticipated)

8. Arms, Groups, and Interventions

Arm Title
MOSAIC Plus
Arm Type
Experimental
Arm Description
"Mother AdvocateS In the Community (MOSAIC) Plus" intervention to reduce depressive and PTSD symptoms and prevent additional IPV among pregnant women and mothers with children under 5 experiencing IPV. The MOSAIC Plus intervention will integrate IPT principles and skills into the MOSAIC intervention in order to expand it to address consequences of IPV, including depression and PTSD symptoms.
Arm Title
MOSAIC
Arm Type
Active Comparator
Arm Description
Those in the active comparator will receive the "Mother AdvocateS In the Community (MOSAIC) Plus" intervention to reduce depressive and PTSD symptoms and prevent additional IPV among pregnant women and mothers with children under 5 experiencing IPV.
Intervention Type
Behavioral
Intervention Name(s)
MOSAIC Plus
Intervention Description
Those in the experimental arm will receive the intervention is called "Mother AdvocateS In the Community (MOSAIC) Plus", an intervention to reduce depressive and PTSD symptoms and prevent additional intimate partner violence among pregnant women and mothers with children under 5 experiencing IPV. The MOSAIC Plus intervention will integrate interpersonal psychotherapy principles and skills into the MOSAIC intervention in order to expand it to address consequences of IPV, including depression and PTSD symptoms.
Intervention Type
Behavioral
Intervention Name(s)
MOSAIC
Intervention Description
Those in the active comparator will receive a mentor mother intervention named Mother AdvocateS In the Community (MOSAIC). This does not include the IPT component.
Primary Outcome Measure Information:
Title
acceptability
Description
We will evaluate the acceptability of the proposed recruitment methods, research design, intervention training methods, and of delivering the MOSAIC Plus and MOSAIC interventions by using End of Treatment Questionnaire.
Time Frame
9 months
Title
Satisfaction with care
Description
We will evaluate the feasibility of the proposed recruitment methods, research design, intervention training methods, and of delivering the MOSAIC Plus and MOSAIC interventions by using Client Satisfaction Questionnaire.
Time Frame
9 months
Title
Quality of Working Relationship
Description
We will evaluate therapeutic alliance by using Working Alliance Inventory-Short Revised (WAI-SR)
Time Frame
9 months
Title
Reduction in depressive symptoms
Description
We will measure reduction in depressive symptoms as assessed by Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9).
Time Frame
baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Title
Reduction in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms
Description
We will measure reduction in posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms by using Davidson Trauma Scale.
Time Frame
baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Secondary Outcome Measure Information:
Title
Intimate Partner Violence
Description
We will measure reduction in subsequent intimate partner violence by using Composite Abuse Scale.
Time Frame
baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Title
Effectiveness Obtaining Resources
Description
We will measure effectiveness in obtaining resources by using Effectiveness Obtaining Resources (EOR) scale.
Time Frame
baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Title
Perceived Social Support
Description
We will measure improvements in perceived social support by using The RAND social support scale (Medical Outcome Study-Social Support Survey MOS-SS)
Time Frame
baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Title
Functioning
Description
We will use the WHO Disability Assessment schedule-12 to assess mental health related disability.
Time Frame
baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Title
Self-care and self-worth
Description
We will use the self-care and self-worth scale to assess changes in self-care.
Time Frame
baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Title
General health and wellbeing
Description
We will use the SF-36 to assess changes in general health and wellbeing.
Time Frame
baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months
Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures:
Title
Provider Competencies
Description
We will assess competency of providers by using Competency Assessment Inventory (CAI)
Time Frame
6 and 9 months
Title
Quality of working relationship-provider perspective
Description
We will assess the quality of working relationship by using the provider perspective section of working alliance inventory.
Time Frame
3, 6 and 9 months

10. Eligibility

Sex
Female
Minimum Age & Unit of Time
18 Years
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Pregnant and/or are mothers of children under 5 and r Report IPV experiences in the past 6 months (as assessed by Composite Abuse Scale) Aged 18 or above, Have elevated depressive and/or PTSD symptoms as assessed by Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) with a cutoff point of ≥9, and/or the Davidson Trauma Scale (DTS) with a cut-off point of ≥40. Exclusion Criteria: Cannot provide the name and contact information of at least two locator persons, Do not have access to any telephone, Cannot understand English well enough to understand the consent form or assessment instruments when they are read aloud
Central Contact Person:
First Name & Middle Initial & Last Name or Official Title & Degree
Maji H Debena, PhD
Phone
810-600-5684
Email
debenama@msu.edu
Facility Information:
Facility Name
YWCA Flint
City
Flint
State/Province
Michigan
ZIP/Postal Code
48502
Country
United States
Facility Contact:
First Name & Middle Initial & Last Name & Degree
Trina Sanders
Email
trinasanders@ywcaflint.org

12. IPD Sharing Statement

Plan to Share IPD
Undecided

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