Flying under the radar: engagement and retention of depressed low-income mothers in a mental health intervention.
A randomized trial of in-home psychotherapy for depressive symptoms that targeted low-income mothers of infants and toddlers used innovative design features to reduce stigma and enhance acceptability. Despite these features, advanced practice psychiatric mental health nurses used specialized, relationship-based strategies to engage and retain these high-risk mothers in the intervention. Data revealed that the nurses needed to diligently maintain contact, provide encouragement, use empathy for rapid assessment and response, and control the intensity of the relationship-based contacts in order to retain mothers.
Beeber
Linda S
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School of Nursing, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. beeber@email.unc.edu
Cooper
Carolyn
C
Van Noy
Barbara E
BE
Schwartz
Todd A
TA
Blanchard
Hjordis C
HC
Canuso
Regina
R
Robb
Katherine
K
Laudenbacher
Cheryl
C
Emory
Sara L
SL
D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000451:nursing* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009511:New England; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology; D011203:Poverty; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods; D011613:Psychotherapy; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D015144:Southeastern United States