NCT04383340

Sensitivity Training for Parents With Premature Infants

Sensitivity Training for Mothers With Premature Infants: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 68 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a culturally adapted version of the Mother-Infant Transaction Program (MITP) among Chinese mothers with premature infants in public hospitals in Hong Kong.

Detailed description

Potential participants at two public hospitals in Hong Kong were identified by ward nurses. Mother-infant dyads with infants born at 36 weeks or earlier were assessed for eligibility. Data collection was conducted after obtaining written consent from the mothers. Mother-infant dyads who met the inclusion criteria were randomly allocated to either the intervention or the treatment-as-usual control group. Each dyad was assessed at six time points, i.e., baseline, immediately after intervention/TAU, and when the infants were at the gestation-corrected ages of 3, 6, 9, and 12 months.

Conditions

• Premature Birth

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Mother-Infant Transaction Program	Parent sensitivity training for mothers of premature infants
BEHAVIORAL	Treatment as usual	Standard hospital care and parental support

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-01
• Primary completion: 2019-08-31
• Completion: 2019-08-31
• First posted: 2020-05-12
• Last updated: 2022-04-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong