Investigators: Dr Amy Finlay-Jones, A/Prof Jenny Downs, Prof Susan Prescott, Prof Desiree Silva, Ms Jackie Davis
Project team members: Ms Keerthi Kottampally
Collaborators: Dr Jeneva Ohan, Ms Amanda O’Donovan, Dr Ravisha Srinivasjois
Partners: Joondalup Health Campus, The ORIGINS Project
Project description
Pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood can involve many new challenges. These challenges can increase stress levels in pregnancy. This project aims to pilot three different programs of support for emotional health, to compare how they influence well-being and stress among pregnant women.
Women will be randomly allocated to one of three stress-reduction training programs. All programs involve a short meditation or relaxation exercise, that will be completed once a day for 8 weeks. We expect, based on past research, that completing these exercises will be helpful at improving wellbeing and reducing feelings of stress in pregnant women.
Following this project, we aim to conduct a larger study that will investigate whether there are additional benefits for the babies of the participants.
Funding
The Kids Research Institute Australia “THINK BIG”