Telephone-based nurse-delivered interpersonal psychotherapy for postpartum depression: nationwide randomised controlled trial Cindy-Lee Dennis, Sophie Grigoriadis, John Zupancic, Alex Kiss and Paula Ravitz Background Postpartumdepressionand anxietyareunder-addressed public health problems with numerous treatment access barriers, including insufficiently available mental health specialist providers. Aims To examine the effectiveness of nurse-delivered telephone interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for postpartum depression. Trial registration ISRCTN88987377. Method Postpartum women (n=241) with major depression (on the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-I)) from 36 Canadian public health regions in rural and urban settings were randomly assigned to 12 weekly 60min nurse-delivered t

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