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The Playful Learning in Infancy Program

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Parent-Child Relations
Infant Development
Interventions
Behavioral: Playful Learning in Infancy Program
Behavioral: Postnatal care as usual
Registration Number
NCT06352229
Lead Sponsor
University of Copenhagen
Brief Summary

In the Playful Learning in Infancy Program, parents receive research-based educational guidance on playful interactions with their infants aged 0-1 year. They learn to recognize their infants' cues indicating readiness to engage in play and they are introduced to specific, developmentally appropriate activities for interactive engagement. The guidance is delivered to parents during routine home visits by public health visitors.

The aims of the Playful Learning in Infancy Program are to 1) promote playful interactions between infants and parents, parental attitudes towards play, and infant socioemotional development; 2) enhance the language and knowledge of playful learning in infancy among frontline staff; and 3) evaluate the Playful Learning in Infancy Program for potential testing in a future large-scale RCT study.

Evaluation is based on a parallel group study design, with half of the participants receiving care as usual and half of the participants receiving care as usual along with the Playful Learning in Infancy Program.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
2327
Inclusion Criteria
  • Residence address in the Danish municipalities of Hvidovre or Billund
  • Residence address with child or legal custody of the child
  • Child is between 1-7 months old
  • Understands Danish or English
Exclusion Criteria
  • Parental age under the age of 18 when the child is born
  • Multiple pregnancy

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Playful Learning in Infancy ProgramPlayful Learning in Infancy ProgramPlayful Learning in Infancy Program plus postnatal care as usual
Care As UsualPostnatal care as usualPostnatal care as usual
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Parental Playful interactionsT2 (infant age 3-3.5 months), T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months), and T4 (infant age 10-10.5 months)

Playful interactions are assessed using The Parent Play Questionnaire (PPQ) by Ahmadzadeh et al. (2020), which assesses the frequency of parent-child play and screen use.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Infant Socio-emotional DevelopmentT5 (infant age 11-11.5 months)

Infant socio-emotional development is assessed via parental report using the Ages \& Stages Questionnaires®: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ:SE-2; Squires, Bricker, \& Twombly, 2015).

Parental Attachment StyleT1/Enrollment (4 weeks - 8 months)

Parents' attachment style is assessed using the Experience in Close Relationships-Revised-Short Form (ECR-RS) questionnaire (Fraley et al., 2000).

Infant Screen TimeT2 (infant age 3-3.5 months), T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months), and T4 (infant age 10-10.5 months)

The infant's screen time is assessed using quantitative questions developed for the project and administered to parents.

Infant Level of PlayT4 (infant age 10-10.5 months)

We have developed questions for the parents to report on the child's level of play, based on Belsky, J., \& Most, R. K. (1981).

Questions developed for the study regarding Parental Knowledge of PlayT2 (infant age 3-3.5 months), T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months), and T4 (infant age 10-10.5 months)

Questions developed for the study for parents in the intervention group regarding knowledge of play.

Parental Mind-MindednessT5 (infant age 11-11.5 months)

Parental mind-mindedness is assessed using a written response to the first question from the "Describe your child" interview (Meins et al., 1998). Mind-mindedness is coded according to the criteria specified in the mind-mindedness coding manual (Meins \& Fernyhough, 2015).

Parental Experience of the PLIPImmediately after the intervention

Qualitative interviews with a subsample of parents.

Parental StressT3 (infant age 7-7.5 months)

Maternal and paternal parenting stress is assessed via self-report using the Parenting Stress Index™, Third Edition Short Form (PSI-3-SF; Abidin, 1995).

Parental Mental Well-BeingT1/Enrollment (4 weeks - 8 months) and T5 (infant age 11-11.5 months)

Parental mental well-being is assessed using the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale - (S)WEMWBS (Tennant et al., 2007).

Health Visitors' Experience of the PLIPImmediately after the intervention

Qualitative interviews with a subsample of health visitors.

Questions developed for the study regarding Parental InvolvementT2 (infant age 3-3.5 months), T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months), and T4 (infant age 10-10.5 months)

Questions developed for the study regarding the parent's involvement in the child's life and daily activities.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Center for Early Interventions and Family Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen

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Copenhagen, Denmark

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