Impact Evaluation of the "Baby Newsletter"
- Conditions
- Parenting
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Baby Newsletter
- Registration Number
- NCT03268408
- Lead Sponsor
- Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale Reggio Emilia
- Brief Summary
Not-randomized controlled study to evaluate a community intervention to promote self-efficacy parenting. The treated group will be composed by all newborns resident in S.Ilario d'Enza (105 in 2013) where the Baby Newsletter is implemented. Newborns resident in the Health District of Montecchio and born in Montecchio Hospital in the same period are the control group (278 in 2013). Preterm or hospitalized children are excluded.
Self-efficacy parenting is evaluated through a questionnaire administered at baseline, after 5 and 12 months.
- Detailed Description
Background
The importance of promoting parenting skills is worldwide recognized and, in Italy, different projects are implemented in order to develop these competences. The impact of these experiences is rarely evaluated.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the improvement in self-efficacy parenting produced by an intervention which consists in sending to every new parents, during the first year of life of their son, eight newsletters with advices and recommendations on child care and development (project "Baby Newsletter").
Methods
Not-randomized controlled study to evaluate a community intervention to promote self-efficacy parenting. The treated group will be composed by all newborns resident in S.Ilario d'Enza (105 in 2013) where the Baby Newsletter is implemented. Newborns resident in the Health District of Montecchio and born in Montecchio Hospital in the same period are the control group (278 in 2013). Preterm or hospitalized children are excluded.
Self-efficacy parenting is evaluated through the TOPSE (Tool to measure Parenting Self-Efficacy) questionnaire administered at baseline, in Montecchio Birth Unit or at the paediatric clinics, and at the vaccination appointments after 5 and 12 months.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 136
- being parent of a child born during the study enrollment period and resident in the Montecchio Health District
- good comprehension of Italian language
- delivering in other facilities than the Montecchio hospitals (only for controls)
- parents of newborns with pathological conditions at born
- parents of newborns that were transferred to another hospital immediately after born due to clinical reasons
- parents of pre-term newborns
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Intervention Baby Newsletter Intervention aimed at improving self-efficacy parenting which consists in sending to new parents, during the first year of life of their son, eight newsletters with advices and recommendations on child care and development (project "Baby Newsletter").
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Parenting score pressures 12 months score based on 6 items of TOPSE questionnaire
Parenting score on the scale "play and enjoyment" 12 months score based on 6 items of TOPSE questionnaire
Parenting score on the scale "empathy and understanding" 12 months score based on 6 items of TOPSE questionnaire
Parenting score on the scale "emotion and affection" 12 months score based on 6 items of TOPSE questionnaire
Parenting score control 12 months score based on 6 items of TOPSE questionnaire
Parenting score on the scale "discipline and setting boundaries" 12 months score based on 6 items of TOPSE questionnaire
Parenting score self-acceptance 12 months score based on 6 items of TOPSE questionnaire
Parenting score on the scale "learning and knowledge" 12 months score based on 6 items of TOPSE questionnaire
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Montecchio Hospital
🇮🇹Montecchio Emilia, Italy