The efficacy of a brief parent-infant psychotherapy for the treatment of early regulatory disorders: A randomized controlled trial
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- F43.2Adjustment disorders
- Registration Number
- DRKS00005739
- Lead Sponsor
- Institut für Psychosoziale PräventionUniversitätsklinikum Heidelberg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 155
Inclusion Criteria
organically healthy; singleton; born at or after 37 weeks gestational age; mother speaking sufficently german; meeting diagnostic criteria for DC: 0-3 R (regulation disorder of sensory processing, sleep behavior disorder, feeding behavior disorder)
Exclusion Criteria
pediatric suspicion of fetal alcohol syndrome; disability and/or pervasive developmental disorder; parents reporting severe psychopatholic symptoms (SCL-90R-S, T = 70)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Average Time (in min.) of observed crying/fussing-, sleeping-, and feeding episodes (based on 24h diaries filled out for four consecutive days by Papoušek, Rothenburg, Cierpka & von Hofacker, 2004) after twelve weeks of intervention and in the catamnesis after twelve months. Difficulties concerning the regulation of crying, sleeping and feeding (Questionnaire for Crying, Feeding and Sleeping by Groß, Reck, Thiel-Bonney & Cierpka, 2013) after twelve weeks of intervention. Behavioral difficulties of the child (Child Behavior Checklist 1 ½ - 5 by Arbeitsgruppe Kinder-, Jugend- und Familiendiagnostik, 2002) and in the catamnesis after twelve months. Diagnoses of sleep-onset or night-waking disorder according to DC: 0-3 (2005) in the catamnesis after twelve months.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method