title: Flying under the radar: engagement and retention of depressed low-income mothers in a mental health intervention.
abstract: 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.
authors: School of Nursing, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. beeber@email.unc.edu
authors: Linda S
authors: LS
authors: Beeber
authors: Carolyn
authors: C
authors: Cooper
authors: Barbara E
authors: BE
authors: Van Noy
authors: Todd A
authors: TA
authors: Schwartz
authors: Hjordis C
authors: HC
authors: Blanchard
authors: Regina
authors: R
authors: Canuso
authors: Katherine
authors: K
authors: Robb
authors: Cheryl
authors: C
authors: Laudenbacher
authors: Sara L
authors: SL
authors: Emory
mesh_terms: 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