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An Intervention for Enhancing Early Attachment in Primary Health Care

NCT01908881 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 181

Last updated 2015-11-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a group intervention for primary health care dyads (two interacting people, in this case: mother-infant or caregiver-infant), which have been screened during pregnancy to be at psychosocial risk, has an impact on parental sensitivity.

Conditions

  • Child Development
  • Mother-Child Relations

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Group Workshop

The intervention consists in a group workshop (for up to 7 dyads with children aged between 6 and 12 months and two health care professional monitors) of four sessions of two hours each, held weekly. One of the sessions is characterized as including the fathers or other caregivers relevant to the upbringing of the children. Each session is structured around various activities that specifically deal with the skills associated with parental sensitivity and address relevant issues to child rearing, considering the development of the child.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual Care

According to the screening carried out various interventions are offered by Primary Health Care centers (eg. home visits) in the "Chile Crece Contigo" Program. During pregnancy, if the mother is screened for positive psychosocial risk she would receive different interventions consisting in (usual care at Primary Health Care Centers): home visits, evaluation by social worker and planning interventions according to a multidisciplinary team.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Francisca Figueroa Leigh, MD · Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-04-30
Primary Completion
2015-08-31
Completion
2015-08-31

Countries

  • Chile

Study Locations

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