Arch Psychiatr Nurs. 2025 Aug;57:151934. doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2025.151934. Epub 2025 Jul 5.
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Women are predisposed to elevated levels of depression and anxiety. In the context of long-term academic-community partnerships with three urban, racially/ethnically diverse, under-resourced neighborhoods and via community-based participatory research, supportive/educative groups, called Women Supporting Women (WSW), were developed as a solution to lessen depression and anxiety experienced by women residents. These in-person groups were launched in 2012 and evidence-based as of 2018. The instance of COVID, coupled with several persistent barriers, led to the subsequent development of WSW Zoom.
METHODS: This study employed a pretest-posttest design to determine the efficacy of WSW Zoom.
RESULTS: WSW Zoom resulted in statistically significant reductions in depression and anxiety symptoms and increases in depression and anxiety knowledge for self-care scores from pre-WSW to post-WSW and held to the six-month post-WSW juncture. Participants were very satisfied with the WSW Zoom experience. These results are compared to the 2018 WSW in-person study which also demonstrated statistically significant outcomes.
CONCLUSIONS: The ability to offer evidence-based WSW in either an in-person or online format may be a viable strategy for enhancing access to care for vulnerable women.
PMID:40816797 | DOI:10.1016/j.apnu.2025.151934
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