Efficacy of Nurse-led Telepsychological Intervention for Patients with Postpartum Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

OBJECTIVE

The aim of the study was to systematically evaluate the therapeutic effect of nurse-led telepsychological intervention on patients with postpartum depression.

METHODS

PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, Chinese Biomedical Literature Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Database, and China VIP database were searched for articles on the effectiveness of remote psychological intervention in improving postpartum depression. The search time was limited from the establishment of the database to December 2023. The literature was screened, and data were extracted. The Cochrane risk of bias assessment tool was used to evaluate the quality of randomized controlled trials that met standards, and RevMan5.4 was used for meta-analysis.

RESULTS

A total of 14 studies involving 1765 patients from 9 countries were included. Meta-analysis results showed that compared with routine care, telepsychological intervention can alleviate maternal depression (Standard Mean Difference [SMD] = -0.60, 95% CI [-0.91, -0.29],  = 88%, < .01). Sensitivity and subgroup analyses revealed that 3 studies using the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale evaluation tool were the source of heterogeneity in the meta-analysis.

CONCLUSION

Telepsychological postpartum depression intervention can effectively improve postpartum depression, indicating that it has a certain clinical application value.