School of Social Work, Portland State University, PO Box 751-SSW, Portland, OR, 97207, USA.
Department of Psychiatry, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13001 E. 17th Place, Box F546, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
Community Ment Health J. 2021 Aug;57(6):1130-1141. doi: 10.1007/s10597-020-00744-y. Epub 2020 Nov 7.
Low-income women experience disproportionately high rates of adverse maternal mental health outcomes, such as pregnancy-related depression, and have less access to behavioral health support. Adverse maternal mental health affects children through compromising bonding, impeding early childhood development, and increasing risks of child maltreatment. Integrated behavioral health approaches can improve access to behavioral health services by locating services in community-based settings routinely accessed by low-income families. Warm Connections is an innovative integrated behavioral health program delivered in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and rooted in an infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) framework. This exploratory study describes Warm Connections and provides evaluation results from its pilot implementation. Findings suggest Warm Connections may reduce distress and increase parenting efficacy among low-income mothers and support further research of this program's feasibility.
低收入妇女经历了不成比例的高比例的不良孕产妇心理健康结果,如与怀孕相关的抑郁症,并且获得行为健康支持的机会较少。不良孕产妇心理健康通过影响亲子关系、阻碍儿童早期发展以及增加儿童受虐待的风险来影响儿童。综合行为健康方法可以通过将服务定位在低收入家庭经常光顾的社区环境中来改善行为健康服务的可及性。“温暖连接”是一项创新性的综合行为健康计划,在妇女、婴儿和儿童特别补充营养计划(WIC)中实施,并植根于婴幼儿心理健康(IECMH)框架。这项探索性研究描述了“温暖连接”计划,并提供了其试点实施的评估结果。研究结果表明,“温暖连接”计划可能会减轻低收入母亲的痛苦并提高其育儿能力,并支持进一步研究该计划的可行性。