NCT04693494

Effectiveness of a Training Program for Parents of Babies in Their First Year of Life to Achieve Motor Milestones

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 82 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad San Jorge · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Day – 9 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

this study compares motor development of two groups of healthy term babies at the end of their first year of life. Parents of the intervention group have received a training program consisting in advices about correct positions, stimuli, how to play or how to carry their babies. The purpose of this study is to know if motor development can be improved by the environment.

Detailed description

Infants in both groups are recruited by the principal investigator at the hospital within two to three days after birth. An initial assessment was carried out at 2 months of age. Intervention group: 1. Four training sessions (before the baby is 1 month old, at 3 months, at 6, and at 9 months old) teaching the main motor milestones to get in the next 3 months and how to help infants with the correct stimuli, positions or plays; triptychs containing the main points explained at the session and links to short videos about the given bits of advice. 2. Three evaluations of motor milestones at 9, 12, and 15 months old. Control group: 1\. Three evaluations of motor milestones at 9, 12, and 15 months old.

Conditions

• Term
• Healthy
• Motor Delay
• Development, Infant

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Training program	Training program consisting in 4 sessions with information about milestones to achieve and advices for motor development. Triptychs and short videos containing the main points containing the main points.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-12-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-07
• Completion: 2023-01-17
• First posted: 2021-01-05
• Last updated: 2024-05-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain