NCT05398107

Building Emotion Awareness and Mental Health (BEAM): Community Partnership With Family Dynamics

Completed NA Last updated 22 March 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Experimental: Building Emotion Awareness and Mental Health (BEAM) in Depression, Anxiety in 80 participants. Completed in 30 December 2022.

Timeline

28 January 2022

Primary endpoint
30 July 2022

30 December 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of Manitoba
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	80
Start date	28 January 2022
Primary completion	30 July 2022
Estimated completion	30 December 2022
Sites	1 location across Canada

Drugs / interventions tested

• Experimental: Building Emotion Awareness and Mental Health (BEAM)
• Control: MoodMission

Conditions studied

• Depression, Anxiety — all drugs for Depression, Anxiety →

Sponsor

University of Manitoba

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Depression, Anxiety. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, postpartum depression and anxiety has increased dramatically. This is problematic as mothers in Manitoba must wait 12-18 months for therapeutic services. Children exposed to maternal mental illness in the first few years of life are at risk of negative lifelong adverse effects. Thus, the investigators of this project created and have tested The Building Emotion Awareness and Mental health (BEAM) program, which is an app-based mental health and parenting program for mothers of young children who are experiencing depression and/or anxiety. BEAM is now ready to be tested in partnership with an established community agency. This partnership will enable counsellors to provide expert-led mental health treatment to supplement and expand upon existing mental health services and will enable an established agency to address widespread unmet family mental health needs through the provision of mobile health (mHealth) content, training, and consultation. A two-arm pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) with repeated measures will be used to evaluate the BEAM program compared to MoodMission (an evidence-based mHealth program) which will be the standard of care. Outcomes will be assessed to determine the effects of the BEAM program on reducing maternal mental health symptoms among a sample of 80 mothers who self-report moderate-to-severe symptoms of depression and/or anxiety (on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, respectively), meet criteria for a current major depressive episode and/or anxiety disorder (as determined on the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview) and have a child between the ages of 6 to 18 months old.

Publications & conference data

4 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. The Building Emotional Awareness and Mental health (BEAM) program developed with a community partner for mothers of infants: protocol for a feasibility randomized controlled trial.
   Joyce KM, Rioux C, MacKinnon AL, Katz LY, et al · · 2023 · cited 1× · PMID 36895006 · DOI 10.1186/s40814-023-01260-y
2. Bridging the Gap: A Secondary Data Analysis of Implementation Outcomes and Symptom Trajectories of an eHealth Mental Health and Parenting Treatment Among Mothers With and Without At-Risk Substance Use.
   Joyce KM, McHardy RJW, Kelly LE, Reynolds K, et al · · 2026 · PMID 41970406 · DOI 10.1177/29768357261438586
3. The Building Emotional Awareness and Mental health (BEAM) program developed with a community partner for mothers of infants: Protocol for a feasibility randomized controlled trial
   Joyce KM, Rioux C, MacKinnon AL, Katz LY, et al · · 2022 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2235864/v1
4. The Building Emotional Awareness and Mental health (BEAM) program developed with a community partner for mothers of infants: A study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
   Joyce KM, Rioux C, MacKinnon A, Katz L, et al · · 2022 · DOI 10.31234/osf.io/czt8h