Many preventive interventions have been published during the last two decades. However, access to this information by stakeholders to make evidence-based decisions can be difficult due to the desegregation of the information.
To solve this problem, researchers have developed new methodologies or initiatives to aggregate information and facilitate access. One of these innovative initiatives is the Metapsy project, led by Prof. Pim Cuijpers, Dr. Eirini Karyotaki, and their team (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands), which provides open access to meta-analytic databases (https://www.metapsy.org) in the field of psychology.
The Perinatal Metapsy project is a project integrated into the innovative Metapsy project. The Perinatal Metapsy project aims to create a database in an open-access format and continuously updated, compiling the scientific evidence available on the effectiveness of preventive interventions (such as psychological, psychoeducational, physical activity, and pharmacological) for perinatal depression. It is being designed following rigorous scientific standards to provide an innovative and valuable tool for stakeholders and researchers, not only to facilitate easy access to the information to make evidence-based decisions but also to aggregate information of an entire field.
This project will allow the performance of multiple meta-analytic studies in real-time, covering different PICO research questions.
Explore our objetives!
Objective 1
To perform a meta-analytic research domain on the effectiveness of any type of preventive intervention (psychological, psychoeducational, physical activity, and pharmacological, to name a few) in the prevention of perinatal depression.
Objective 2
To integrate meta-analytic databases into an open-access and friendly use web-based tool that allows the performance of multiple meta-analytic studies in real-time, covering different PICO research questions about the effectiveness of preventive intervention over perinatal depression.
