Creating Comfort in Choice Theory: Animated Video
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It describes the personal journey women take in deciding whether or not to take antidepressant medication during pregnancy. It is created in the hopes that others can understand the complexities of making such a decision, while navigating internal and external influences.
Creating Comfort in Choice Theory
My doctoral work focused on how we can better support women who are trying to decide whether to take antidepressants during pregnancy. I did this through two studies.
In one, I interviewed 31 women about their experience of deciding whether to take antidepressants during pregnancy and then developed a theoretical model of decision making from women’s stories. In the other, I did genetic testing for 83 women who were taking antidepressants during pregnancy, and compared levels of depression symptoms for women grouped by variations they had in two genes that are responsible for enzymes that are involved in metabolizing antidepressants.
My research can be used by clinicians and patients to support decisions regarding depression treatment during pregnancy.
Genetic Testing Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34231053/
Development of the Creating Comfort in Choice theory: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23293691.2023.2230463
Dr. Catriona Hippman's Doctoral Dissertation: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74374
This work has been curated into PharmGKB – the foremost resource for pharmacogenomics for clinicians and researchers [Annotation 15126962]; annotations can be found here.
Credits and Acknowledgements
Generous donors through BC Women's Health Foundation
Research participants
Prescilla Carrion: BC Reproductive Mental Health Program, Research Manager and Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Lynda Balneaves: University of Manitoba Associate Professor
Dr. Deirdre Ryan: BC Reproductive Mental Health Program, Medical Director and UBC Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Jehannine Austin: UBC Professor; BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services Research Institute Executive Director
Brooklynn Wong "The Amazing": Plain Language Consultant
Meaghan Jackson: Music and Sound Design
Yumiko Sasakawa: Animation Director
Additional Information
Article: https://nursing.ucalgary.ca/news/nursing-postdoctoral-scholars-make-advances-their-program-research
Funding Information: https://healthresearchbc.ca/award/an-ikt-interpretivist-feminist-multi-method-study-examining-the-experience-of-and-models-of-treatment-for-acute-postpartum-mental-illness/
Funding Information: https://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/decisions/p/main.html?lang=en#fq={!tag=pinames}pinames%3A%22Hippman%20%20Catriona%20L%22&sort=namesort%20asc&start=0&rows=20