Problem solving strategy can help prevent depression in low income mothers

A simple problem solving education intervention shows promise in helping prevent depression in low income mothers, a randomised controlled trial published in JAMA Psychiatry has found.1

Maternal depression disproportionately affects low income and minority women. A cognitive behavioural programme was delivered to mothers who were enrolled in Head Start, an early learning programme that provides services for about a million low income families each year in the United States.

The study included 230 mothers who had depressed …