NCT06237088

Mother-infant Connection Strategy Program

Mother-infant Connection Strategy Program: Impact on Psychological Distress and Mother-infant Bonding in Women

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 142 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluated the long-term effects of an online mindfulness-based program on the psychological distress and mother-infant bonding of women

Detailed description

The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of an online mindfulness program in reducing women's perceived stress, anxiety, depression, and in enhancing mindfulness and mother-infant bonding compared to a control group. The investigators hypothesize that the use of an online mindfulness program or an eight-week mindfulness program by the two experimental groups will lead to improved mood symptoms and mother-infant bonding compared with the control group. A randomized controlled trial comparing three groups of healthy, singleton pregnant women was conducted using the Random Allocation Software (Saghaei, 2004). We used G-Power 3.1.9 for Windows to analyze the minimum effect size that would be statistically significant with an 80% probability, using an alpha error probability of 0.05 in the "ANOVA: Repeated measures, between factors" option. We inputted 3 for the number of groups, 4 for the number of measurements, 0.5 for the correlation between repeated measures, and factored in a 20% attrition rate. There are 41 women in each group.

Conditions

• Psychological
• Mother-Infant Interaction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	online mindfulness program	The intervention includes an eight-week internet-based mindfulness program. The program introduces participants to a new mindfulness topic every week. These topics are heavily inspired by the eight-week mindfulness programs.
OTHER	eight-week mindfulness programs	The intervention consists of 2.5-hour classes per week over a period of eight weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-30
• Primary completion: 2025-01-30
• Completion: 2026-01-30
• First posted: 2024-02-01
• Last updated: 2024-02-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan