{"id":3905,"date":"2015-02-23T18:56:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T23:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2015-02-25T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T00:02:54","slug":"can-just-a-phone-call-a-week-help-minimize-postpartum-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/can-just-a-phone-call-a-week-help-minimize-postpartum-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Can just a phone call a week  help minimize postpartum depression?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study of mothers in New Brunswick found that phone conversations with helpful peers can diminish postpartum depression (PPD).<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in New Brunswick provided peer support through weekly phone calls to 64 mothers suffering from moderate PPD for several months.\u00a0At the beginning of the experiment all 64 of the mothers were moderately depressed, yet by the midpoint only three\u00a0showed symptoms of PPD. By the end of the study the numbers had risen again to four, suggesting some mothers had relapsed despite support.<\/p>\n<p>The findings may point the way to a simple and accessible way to reduce \u00a0PPD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jan.12622\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Advanced Nursing\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>February 23<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Loretta Secco, Faculty of Nursing, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of mothers in New Brunswick found that phone conversations with helpful peers can diminish postpartum depression (PPD). Researchers in New Brunswick provided peer support through weekly phone calls to 64 mothers suffering from moderate PPD for several months.\u00a0At the beginning of the experiment all 64 of the mothers were moderately depressed, yet by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2152,1000,2259,1290],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-depression","tag-mental-health","tag-new-brunswick","tag-reproduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-10Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}