A mixed methods evaluation of an intervention to prevent perinatal depression among Latina immigrants

Interventions to improve immigrant women's mental health: A systematic review

“…Of the eight included studies, two were RCTs (Le et al, 2011; Lutenbacher et al, 2018), one was a quasi‐experimental study (Hesselink et al, 2012), and five used mixed methods (Cowell et al, 2000; Jin et al, 2020; Karasz et al, 2015; Le et al, 2021; Ryan et al, 2018). Among the mixed methods studies, one had an initial qualitative interview to identify the intervention contents and target population needs followed by a pre‐and post‐test study design (Cowell et al, 2000); three had an initial quasi‐experimental design with a single group pre‐and post‐test study design followed by a qualitative interview to appraise the participant's experiences and satisfaction with the intervention (Jin et al, 2020; Le et al, 2021; Ryan et al, 2018); and one had an initial qualitative interview followed by a random assignment experimental study design to collect both quantitative and qualitative data (Karasz et al, 2015).…”

“…The targeted populations of these studies included Spanish‐speaking women (Cowell et al, 2000; Le et al, 2011; Le et al, 2021; Lutenbacher et al, 2018; Ryan et al, 2018), Turkish women (Hesselink et al, 2012), Chinese women (Jin et al, 2020), and Bangladeshi women (Karasz et al, 2015). Among these participants, three studies considered immigrant mothers (Cowell et al, 2000; Karasz et al, 2015; Ryan et al, 2018), one study examined women who were pregnant or up to 1 year postpartum (Le et al, 2021), and four studies recruited women during pregnancy and followed up with them until the postpartum period (Hesselink et al, 2012; Jin et al, 2020; Le et al, 2011; Lutenbacher et al, 2018).…”

“…However, most interventions did not show a significant effect on depression, including antenatal education programmes (Hesselink et al, 2012), nursing interventions (Jin et al, 2020), cognitivebehavioural interventions (Le et al, 2011, Le et al, 2021, and mindfulness interventions (Ryan et al, 2018). O' Mahony and Clark (2018) mentioned that health public policy and practices affected postpartum health in immigrant women.…”

“…This accords with a literature review (Alhasanat & Fry‐McComish, 2015), which indicated that socioeconomic status is a risk factor associated with the development of depression in immigrant women, and confirms a comprehensive systematic review (Munns et al, 2016) that reported peer‐led home visiting to be important for parenting support. However, most interventions did not show a significant effect on depression, including antenatal education programmes (Hesselink et al, 2012), nursing interventions (Jin et al, 2020), cognitive‐behavioural interventions (Le et al, 2011, Le et al, 2021), and mindfulness interventions (Ryan et al, 2018). O'Mahony and Clark (2018) mentioned that health public policy and practices affected postpartum health in immigrant women.…”

“…The types of interventions reported included home visits (Cowell et al, 2000;Hesselink et al, 2012;Lutenbacher et al, 2018), group classes (Hesselink et al, 2012;Jin et al, 2020;Karasz et al, 2015;Le et al, 2011Le et al, , 2021Ryan et al, 2018), individual contact (Hesselink et al, 2012;Le et al, 2011), providing conversation cards (Jin et al, 2020), and providing social network groups (Jin et al, 2020).…”