Understanding Your Baby: A Parallel Group Study of a Universal Parenting Support Program
Understanding Your Baby: A Universal Parenting Support Program Aiming at Increasing Danish First Time Parents' Abilities for Understanding and Meeting Their Infants' Needs
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Brief Summary
In Understanding Your Baby first-time parents receive research-based knowledge on how to interpret their infants' socioemotional needs based on their behavior, and how to meet their infants' socioemotional needs in accordance with their developmental stage. This information is delivered to parents at routine home visits by public health nurses, who are trained in the research base behind the program, and using cue cards and short video clips, which concretely exemplify how infants signal their socioemotional needs and inspire to positive activities between parents and their infants. The aim of Understanding Your Baby is to support infant socioemotional development by increasing parents' abilities at perceiving, understanding, and responding to their infant's socioemotional signals. Evaluation is based on a parallel group study, with half of the participants receiving care as usual and half of the participants receiving care as usual and Understanding Your Baby. The primary outcome is parental sense of competence and secondary outcomes are parental stress and child socioemotional development.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started May 2019
Longer than P75 for not_applicable
1 active site
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
February 28, 2019
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
May 15, 2019
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
June 19, 2019
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
September 30, 2022
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
December 31, 2025
CompletedNovember 18, 2023
November 1, 2023
3.4 years
February 28, 2019
November 15, 2023
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Maternal Parenting Competence
Maternal Parenting Competence is assessed via self-report using the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (PSOC; Gibaud-Wallston, 1977).
T4 (infant age 11-11.5 months)
Secondary Outcomes (6)
Maternal and Paternal Parenting Competence
T1 (infant age 2-2.5 months), T2 (infant age 4-4.5 months), and T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months)
Maternal and Paternal Parenting Stress
T2 (infant age 4-4.5 months) and T4 (infant age 11-11.5 months)
Maternal and Paternal Parental Mentalizing
T2 (infant age 4-4.5 months), T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months), and T4 (infant age 11-11.5 months)
Maternal and Paternal Mind-Mindedness
T1 (infant age 2-2.5 months), T2 (infant age 4-4.5 months), T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months), and T4 (infant age 11-11.5 months)
Maternal, paternal and child screen use
T1 (infant age 2-2.5 months), T2 (infant age 4-4.5 months), T3 (infant age 7-7.5 months), and T4 (infant age 11-11.5 months)
- +1 more secondary outcomes
Study Arms (2)
Understanding Your Baby
EXPERIMENTALUnderstanding Your Baby plus postnatal care as usual
Care As Usual
ACTIVE COMPARATORPostnatal care as usual
Interventions
Research-based knowledge on the understanding and meeting of the baby's socioemotional needs is delivered to the parents systematically by public health visitors based on a manual, cue cards, and video clips at four time points from 1 to 10 months postpartum.
In accordance with Danish national guidelines, health visitors visit families during the infants first year of life, where they weigh and measure the infant. Further, they offer individual guidance and support regarding for instance feeding, sleeping, how to stimulate the infant, and the developmental stages that the infant goes through.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- First-time mother or father/partner
- Singleton pregnancy
- Mother living together with the baby
- Mother living in the Danish municipalities of Køge, Hvidovre, Høje-Taastrup, Frederiksberg, Lolland, Holbæk, Næstved, Middelfart, Nyborg or Aalborg.
- Understands Danish or English
You may not qualify if:
- Under the age of 18 when the child is born
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- University of Copenhagenlead
- Nordea-fondencollaborator
Study Sites (1)
Center for Early Interventions and Family Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, 1353, Denmark
Related Publications (1)
Vaever MS, Krogh MT, Stuart AC, Madsen EB, Haase TW, Egmose I. Understanding Your Baby: protocol for a controlled parallel group study of a universal home-based educational program for first time parents. BMC Psychol. 2022 Sep 22;10(1):223. doi: 10.1186/s40359-022-00924-3.
PMID: 36138482DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Interventions
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Mette S. Væver
University of Copenhagen
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- NON RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- SUPPORTIVE CARE
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- PhD, Associate Professor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
February 28, 2019
First Posted
June 19, 2019
Study Start
May 15, 2019
Primary Completion
September 30, 2022
Study Completion
December 31, 2025
Last Updated
November 18, 2023
Record last verified: 2023-11
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will not share