Understanding Your Baby: A Universal Parenting Support Program Aiming at Increasing Danish First Time Parents' Abilities for Understanding and Meeting Their Infants' Needs
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Copenhagen
- Enrollment
- 1,737
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Maternal Parenting Competence
Study Overview
Brief Summary
In Understanding Your Baby first-time parents receive research-based knowledge on how to interpret their infants' socioemotional needs based on their behavior, and how to meet their infants' socioemotional needs in accordance with their developmental stage. This information is delivered to parents at routine home visits by public health nurses, who are trained in the research base behind the program, and using cue cards and short video clips, which concretely exemplify how infants signal their socioemotional needs and inspire to positive activities between parents and their infants.
The aim of Understanding Your Baby is to support infant socioemotional development by increasing parents' abilities at perceiving, understanding, and responding to their infant's socioemotional signals. Evaluation is based on a parallel group study, with half of the participants receiving care as usual and half of the participants receiving care as usual and Understanding Your Baby. The primary outcome is parental sense of competence and secondary outcomes are parental stress and child socioemotional development.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Non Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Supportive Care
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •First-time mother or father/partner
- •Singleton pregnancy
- •Mother living together with the baby
- •Mother living in the Danish municipalities of Køge, Hvidovre, Høje-Taastrup, Frederiksberg, Lolland, Holbæk, Næstved, Middelfart, Nyborg or Aalborg.
- •Understands Danish or English
Exclusion Criteria
- •Under the age of 18 when the child is born
Arms & Interventions
Understanding Your Baby
Understanding Your Baby plus postnatal care as usual
Intervention: Understanding Your Baby (Behavioral)
Care As Usual
Postnatal care as usual
Intervention: Postnatal care as usual (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Maternal Parenting Competence
Time Frame: T4 (infant age 11-11.5 months)
Maternal Parenting Competence is assessed via self-report using the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC; Gibaud-Wallston, 1977).
Secondary Outcomes
- Maternal and Paternal Parental Mentalizing(T2 (infant age 4-4.5 months), T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months), and T4 (infant age 11-11.5 months))
- Maternal and Paternal Parenting Stress(T2 (infant age 4-4.5 months) and T4 (infant age 11-11.5 months))
- Maternal and Paternal Parenting Competence(T1 (infant age 2-2.5 months), T2 (infant age 4-4.5 months), and T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months))
- Maternal and Paternal Mind-Mindedness(T1 (infant age 2-2.5 months), T2 (infant age 4-4.5 months), T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months), and T4 (infant age 11-11.5 months))
- Infant socio-emotional development(T4 (infant age 11-11.5 months))
- Maternal, paternal and child screen use(T1 (infant age 2-2.5 months), T2 (infant age 4-4.5 months), T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months), and T4 (infant age 11-11.5 months))
Investigators
Mette Væver
PhD, Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen