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Evaluating the Efficacy of ABC for High-Risk Parent and Infants

NCT02647463 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2018-04-18

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Summary

Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is a manualized 10-session intervention delivered in families' homes or other places of residence. By helping parents of infants provide nurturance when their children are in distress, follow their children's lead, and behave in non-frightening ways, the ABC intervention has been previously found to enhance children's attachment quality and children's ability to regulate behavior, physiology, and emotions. The purpose of the present study is to examine the effectiveness of ABC in the context of community-based implementation efforts. Outcome assessments will include parent sensitivity, attachment quality, and cortisol regulation. The investigators hypothesize that parents randomly assigned to receive the ABC intervention will show higher levels of sensitivity at follow-up than parents randomly assigned to the waitlist control condition; and children randomly assigned to the ABC intervention will show higher rates of secure attachment and more normative profiles of cortisol than children randomly assigned to the waitlist condition.

Conditions

  • Attachment Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC)

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Kristin Bernard, PhD · Stony Brook University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
20 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2018-10-31
Completion
2018-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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