Participants on this arm will receive a dietary supplement of OmegaVia soybean oil soft gels as a placebo for 8 weeks with bi-weekly follow-up visits to monitor side effects and compliance.

Participants will receive OmegaVia fish oil omega-3 EPA-rich soft gels to take orally for eight (8) weeks with bi-weekly follow-up visits for monitoring of side effects and compliance and data collection.

As a control group, participants received OmegaVia soybean oil soft gels for eight weeks with regular cell-phone and bi-weekly face-to-face follow-up visits. During each follow-up visit, participants were re-supplied with soft-gels and monitored for side effects and compliance.
Each participant randomly received a sequentially numbered, securely sealed opaque plastic bottle containing soybean oil soft gels to take for two weeks before returning for re-supply. Three soft gels of soybean oil were taken by each participant per day. Each soft gel contained saturated fatty acids (0.178 grams), monounsaturated fatty acids (0.299 grams) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (0.985 grams) with traces of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), of 0.115 grams. The soft gels were taken orally, one soft gel taken three times per day in the morning, mid-day and in the evening after meals for a period of 8 weeks.

Soybean Oil Soft Gels Control Group

As the intervention group, participants received a dietary supplement of Omega Via fish oil omega-3 EPA-rich soft gels to take orally for eight weeks with bi-weekly follow-up visits to resupply the soft-gels, monitoring of side effects and compliance and data collection.
Each participant randomly received a sequentially numbered, securely sealed opaque plastic bottle containing fish oil omega-3 EPA-rich soft gels to take for two weeks before returning for re-supply. Each participants took three soft gels of fish oil omega-3 fatty acid per day, each containing more EPA (0.715 grams) than docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) of 0.340 grams. The soft gels were taken orally, one soft gel taken three times per day in the morning, mid-day and in the evening after meals for a period of 8 weeks.

Fish Oil Omega-3 EPA-rich Soft Gels Experimental Group

Total

Sex: Female, Male

Region of Enrollment

Gestation age

Cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) cell count

Mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC)

Beck Depression Inventory Second Edition (BDI-II) Scale is a 21-item scoring tool which measures the existence and severity of symptoms of depression. Each of the 21 items on BDI-II tool represent a depressive symptom. The symptoms are each scored on a 4-point Likert scale of 0 to 3 (0=symptom is absent; 3=symptom is severe).Scores for each symptom are added up to obtain the total scores for all 21 items, which are interpreted as follows: Scores of 0-13: minimal depression; 14-19: mild depression; 20-28: moderate depression and 29-63: severe depression.

BDI-II depressive symptom scores

Marital status

Parity

Education status

Employment status

Household income per month

HIV status knowledge before pregnancy

HIV status disclosure to anyone

prevention of mother-to-child transmission program m2m support group meeting attendance

Experienced stressful life event

Dietary vitamin C

Dietary vitamin B1

Dietary vitamin B6

Dietary vitamin B12

Dietary folate

Dietary Iron

Dietary vitamin E

Dietary calcium

Dietary selenium

Dietary zinc

Dietary total omega-3

Depressive symptoms were assessed by Beck Depression Inventory Second Edition (BDI-II) Scoring scale at Baseline and end of study during the 8- week study period. The BDI-II Scale is a 21-item scoring tool which measures the existence and severity of symptoms of depression. Each of the 21 items on BDI-II tool represent a depressive symptom. The symptoms are each scored on a 4-point Likert scale of 0 to 3 (0=symptom is absent; 3=symptom is severe).Scores for each symptom are added up to obtain the total scores for all 21 items, which are interpreted as follows: Scores of 0-13: minimal depression; 14-19: mild depression; 20-28: moderate depression and 29-63: severe depression. The change in BDI-II scores were computed from post-intervention scores at week 8 and baseline BDI-II scores at week 0.

As the experimental group, participants received dietary supplement of OmegaVia fish oil omega-3 EPA-rich soft gels to take orally for eight weeks with bi-weekly follow-up visits. During each follow-up visit, participants were re-supplied with soft-gels and monitored for side effects and compliance.
Each participant randomly received a sequentially numbered, securely sealed opaque plastic bottle containing fish oil omega-3 EPA-rich soft gels to take for two weeks before returning for re-supply. Three soft gels of fish oil omega-3 fatty acid were taken by each participant per day. Each soft gel contained more eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) of 0.715 grams than docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) of 0.340 grams. The soft gels were taken orally, one soft gel taken three times per day in the morning, mid-day and in the evening after meals for a period of 8 weeks.

Change in BDI-II Depressive Symptom Scores

Fish Oil Omega-3 EPA-rich Experimental Group

Overall Study

Mrs. Rose Okoyo Opiyo

Participants on this arm received a dietary supplement of OmegaVia soybean oil soft gels as a placebo for 8 weeks with bi-weekly follow-up visits to monitor side effects and compliance.
Soybean oil soft gels: Each participant received OmegaVia soybean oil soft gels to take orally, one soft gel taken three times per day in the morning, mid-day and in the evening after meals for a period of 8 weeks.

Soybean Oil Soft Gels

Participants received OmegaVia fish oil omega-3 EPA-rich soft gels to take orally for eight (8) weeks with bi-weekly follow-up visits for monitoring of side effects and compliance and data collection.
Fish oil omega-3 EPA-rich soft gels: A total of 3.0g of OmegaVia fish oil omega-3 EPA-rich soft gels was taken orally per day as one soft gel in the morning, mid-day and evening after meals for 8 weeks with bi-weekly follow-up visits.

Fish Oil Omega-3 EPA-rich Soft Gels

Depressive Symptoms

Each participant will receive OmegaVia soybean oil soft gels to take orally, one soft gel taken three times per day in the morning, mid-day and in the evening after meals for a period of 8 weeks

Soybean oil soft gels

A total of 3.0g of OmegaVia fish oil omega-3 EPA-rich soft gels will be taken orally per day as one soft gel in the morning, mid-day and evening after meals for 8 weeks with bi-weekly follow-up visits.

Fish oil omega-3 EPA-rich soft gels

Nairobi City Council Health Facilities

Omega-3 Supplementation and Depression Clinical Trial

Role of Omega-3 Fish Oil Fatty Acids on Depression Among HIV-seropositive Pregnant Pregnant Women in Nairobi: A Randomized Double-blind Controlled Trial

intestinal volvulus/triglyceride

Omega-3 Supplementation and Depression Clinical Trial

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