Attitudes Behavior and Practices of Mothering Among an Online Panel

Completed

• Conditions: Parenting; Relation, Family; Tantrum; Parent-Child Relations

• Registration Number: NCT04871659
• Lead Sponsor: Columbia University

Brief Summary

Subjects are users on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform. MTurk users will be asked to complete a screening survey about family structure. The purpose of the screening survey is to identify MTurk users who are biological mothers of children aged 1.5 to 6 years old, and to collect survey information on how mothers interact with their children, with the aim of better understanding family relationships.

Detailed Description

This is a feasibility study that aims to identify a panel of biological mothers of children aged 1.5 to 6 years old from an online pool of participants on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk; www.mturk.com). MTurk is a novel method to recruit participants from online behavioral studies. Although MTurk workers are anonymous, demographic surveys from previous studies conducted on the web platform indicate that the majority of MTurk users are females living in the U.S. The participant pool may be of scientific interest in pursuing studies that investigate patterns of behaviors and other information pertaining to mothers. A panel of mothers that fit screening criteria may be helpful for future planned studies on attitudes, behavior, and practices surrounding mothering. The MTurk mothers panel will be eligible to participate in future studies involving knowledge, attitudes, and practices of their motherhood and of emotional connection with their children.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-03-15
• Study First Submitted: 2021-04-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-04-29
• Study First Posted: 2021-05-04
• Primary Completion: 2021-09-05
• Study Completion: 2021-09-05
• Status Verified: 2023-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-02-14
• Last Update Posted: 2023-02-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 374

Inclusion Criteria

• Biological mothers of children between ages 1.5-6 living in the US

Exclusion Criteria

• Not having reliable internet access

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Correlations between survey items	Day 1	Descriptive statistics and correlations will be generated to show the basic participant characteristics captured during the data collection and whether the survey items correlate with each other. Survey items include the Parental Burnout Assessment, the Temper Loss Scale, and two surveys created by Dr. Welch at the Nurture Science Program: the Welch Emotional Connection Screen-Parent Report, as well as a tantrum questionnaire.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Columbia University Irving Medical Center; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States