Mama Empoderada: Parenting and Mental Health Intervention
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Mama Empoderada.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Parenting, Mental Health. Basic parameters: from 18 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Mama Empoderada: A Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Preventative Intervention for Spanish Speaking Mothers and Their Young Children
Overview
This project focuses on the implementation and preliminary evaluation of Mama Empoderada, a brief 12-week group intervention that is based on a parenting program (Mom Power). The researcher's hypotheses are that: 1. Participants will show high rates of fidelity, acceptability, and satisfaction with the intervention 2. Participants will experience decreases in depression, anxiety, isolation, parenting stress, and parent-child interaction problems from pre- to post-intervention, as well as increases in parenting sense of competence.
Detailed description
The study team is from the University of Michigan. The intervention will take place at La Casa Amiga in Pontiac, Michigan.
Interventions
- Behavioral Mama Empoderada
Mama Empoderada focuses on the five pillars of the original Mom Power intervention, and evidence-based treatment that enhances maternal mental health, parenting, and the mother-child relationship. The pillars are: psychoeducation on attachment-based parenting, supporting mother-child relationships, self-care, enhancing social support, and connection to community resources.
Primary outcome measures
- Maternal Depression [Time frame: Baseline, up to 21 days post-intervention]
- Maternal Anxiety [Time frame: Baseline, up to 21 days post-intervention]
- Maternal Isolation [Time frame: Baseline, up to 21 days post-intervention]
- Maternal Parenting Stress [Time frame: Baseline, up to 21 days post-intervention]
- Mother Child Interaction Problems [Time frame: Baseline, up to 21 days post-intervention]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Identifies as a mother of a child ages 6 or younger;
- Spanish-speaker;
- available and interested in participating in an in-person or virtual maternal wellbeing and parenting group intervention at La Casa Amiga. Eligibility criteria will be confirmed by each participant through a brief online screening and a phone call with research staff.
Exclusion criteria
- Participants who are high risk for suicide based on Columbia Suicide Rating Scale
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Basic science
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- University of Michigan — Ann Arbor
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07569393 · HUM00289106 · 20250010-00