Table 2.
Summary of the interventions in the included studies.
| Author(s) and country | Intervention name | Age (years), mean (SD), range | Type of therapeutic guidance | Other support (eg, technical or peer) | Funder | ||||||
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Forsell et al [49], Sweden | Internet Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Antenatal Depression | Intervention: 31.2 (3.7); controls: 30.8 (5.3) | Personalized feedback using written online messages. Therapists only had basic CBTa training and no prior experience nor any special education or training in order to treat this specific population | Anonymous online discussions between participants | Swedish Research Council, regional agreement between Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm City Council, and regional agreement between Umeå University and Västerbotten County Council (ALF) | |||||
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Guo et al [50], China | Internet-based Mindful Self-Compassion Program | Intervention: 29.8 (6.2); controls: 31.4 (5.7) | Detailed information not available | No information provided | No information provided | |||||
| Unguided | |||||||||||
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Barrera et al [47], United States | The Mothers and Babies Internet | Intervention: 29.81 (6.09), 18-43; controls: 30.59 (4.99), 19-42 | N/Ab | No information provided | National Institute of Mental Health, Robert Wood Johnson Health Disparities Seed Grant, University of California Committee on Latino Research, and SFGHc Department of Psychiatry | |||||
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Duffecy et al [48], United States | Sunnyside Group-based Internet Intervention | Intervention: 30.5 (4.05), 25-45; controls: not provided | N/A | Peer support and contact moderator tool for technical or group issues | NIMH, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the NIHd | |||||
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Haga et al [51], Norway | Mamma Mia | Intervention: 31.0 (4.6); controls: 31.1 (4.5) | N/A | Notification to talk to someone or seek professional help when the presence of some or many depression symptoms | Research Council of Norway | |||||
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Loughnan et al [52], Australia | MUMentum Pregnancy Program | Intervention: 31.69 (4.44); control: 31.54 (3.63) | N/A | Technical assistance by research technicians | NHMRCe, HCFf Research Foundation, Rotary Health Australia, and the David Henning Memorial Foundation | |||||
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Sun et al [53], China | Spirits Healing (in Chinese) app | Intervention: 30.27 (3.80); control: (29.55) 4.21 | N/A | No information provided | Chinese National Funding of Social Sciences and China Scholarship Council | |||||
aCBT: cognitive behavioral therapy.
bN/A: not applicable.
cSFGH: San Francisco General Hospital.
dNIH: National Institutes of Health.
eNHMRC: National Health and Medical Research Council.
fHCF: Hospitals Contribution Fund.