NCT06030830

SMaRT Mom - Smartphone Management and Responsive Time for Breastfeeding Mothers

SMaRT Mom - Smartphone Management and Responsive Time for Breastfeeding Mothers - An Intervention Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Bar-Ilan University, Israel · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In the last decade, infants are born into a social environment in which the smartphone has become an essential part of our lives. Smartphone use draws the mother's attention during mother-infant interactions and thus may affect the infant development as well as maternal self-efficacy. However, the effects of smartphone use reduction among breastfeeding mothers during their interactions with their infants have not been studied yet. In the present study, we propose to evaluate a "SMaRT Mom" intervention that we have developed, to manage and reduce smartphone use during breastfeeding. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effects of the SMaRT Mom intervention on breastfeeding mothers' biobehavioral mechanisms, self-efficacy and the socioemotional characteristics of their infants. This will extend our knowledge of the peculiarities of early mother-infant interactions in the digital era, when smartphones play a critical role.

Conditions

• Smartphone Addiction
• Breastfeeding
• Infant Behavior
• Mother-Infant Interaction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	SMaRT Mom	"SMaRT Mom" intervention that we have developed is based on several approaches to digital addiction detection, prevention, and intervention aimed to help breastfeeding mothers to manage and reduce smartphone use during breastfeeding. The SMaRT Mom intervention results will be measured in changes in two main outcomes: 1) reduced maternal reports of their infants' negative emotionality, and 2) increased maternal self-efficacy as distal outcomes as well as two proximal outcomes: 1) breastfeeding as a rewarding experience, and 2) maternal attention towards their infant during breastfeeding. We will then assess changes in breastfeeding mothers' neural activity, physiology and behavior before and after the implementation of the SMaRT Mom intervention, as potential mechanisms underlying changes in the main outcomes of the intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-06
• Primary completion: 2025-07-01
• Completion: 2025-10-01
• First posted: 2023-09-11
• Last updated: 2023-09-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel