NCT03991416

Understanding Your Baby: A Parallel Group Study of a Universal Parenting Support Program

Understanding Your Baby: A Universal Parenting Support Program Aiming at Increasing Danish First Time Parents' Abilities for Understanding and Meeting Their Infants' Needs

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,737 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Copenhagen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• First-time Mothers and Their Partners

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Understanding Your Baby	Research-based knowledge on the understanding and meeting of the baby's socioemotional needs is delivered to the parents systematically by public health visitors based on a manual, cue cards, and video clips at four time points from 1 to 10 months postpartum.
BEHAVIORAL	Postnatal care as usual	In accordance with Danish national guidelines, health visitors visit families during the infants first year of life, where they weigh and measure the infant. Further, they offer individual guidance and support regarding for instance feeding, sleeping, how to stimulate the infant, and the developmental stages that the infant goes through.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-05-15
• Primary completion: 2022-09-30
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2019-06-19
• Last updated: 2023-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark