NCT02394444

Impact of an Intervention Program on Parenting Stress After Preterm Birth

Impact of a Psychological Post-hospital Intervention Aimed at Facilitating Parents-child Attachment and Preventing the Preterm Infants' Psycho-emotional, Social and Cognitive Disturbances

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 89 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Caen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 28 Weeks – 35 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study was to assess the impact of an early psychological intervention, Triadic parent-infant Relationship Therapy (TRT), on parenting stress, parental mental health, and preterm infant development in the motor, cognitive, emotional and behavioral domains at a corrected age of 18 months.

Detailed description

Due to prematurity induced infant-mother separation at birth, sometimes for several weeks, and owing to the concerns it generates, preterm birth exposes the parent-child attachment link to disturbances, especially the mother-child attachment after discharge. Several psychological factors affect infant (distress, dysmaturity ) and parents (psychological pain). These can cause lasting parent-child interactions disruption and jeopardize the attachment process. These early link distortions may hinder the infant's behavioral-emotional and cognitive development. Prematurity psychological consequences may negatively influence biomedical risks. Understanding these premature infants' future development modalities and support involves taking into account intricate organic and psychological factors - which may be combined as well. Post-hospital psychological intervention with the family, focusing on parental mental health and triadic parent-infant relationship, proves an essential element in these children care, whose birth conditions were painful.

Conditions

• Preterm Birth
• Parenting
• Mental Health Wellness 1
• Parent-Child Relation
• Child Development

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Triadic parent-infant Relationship Therapy (TRT)	22 sessions, including home visits twice per month during the first four months, followed by monthly consultations in the neonatology ward, up to corrected age of 18 months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-06-01
• Primary completion: 2010-02-01
• Completion: 2010-02-01
• First posted: 2015-03-20
• Last updated: 2015-03-20