NCT05650424

Infant Abdominal Massage on Postnatal Stress Level

The Effects of Infant Abdominal Massage on Postnatal Stress Level Among Chinese Parents in Hong Kong

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 160 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Hong Kong · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this randomized control trial is to find out the effects of infant abdominal massage on postnatal stress level among Chinese parents in Hong Kong with babies under 1 year old. The main question\[s\] it aims to answer are: * examine the effects of infant abdominal massage on postnatal stress level among Chinese parents in Hong Kong * the relationship between the compliance of the intervention and the change of parental stress level Participants in intervention group will receive a abdominal massage training session and will perform on their baby. Parental stress level will be assess week 0 and four weeks . If there is a comparison group: Researchers will compare wait-listed control group to see if there is any change on their parental stress level

Detailed description

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Conditions

• Parenting
• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Abdominal massage training	please refer to group description

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-10-01
• Primary completion: 2022-08-31
• Completion: 2022-12-01
• First posted: 2022-12-14
• Last updated: 2022-12-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Hong Kong