Mindful Moment: Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of a Web-based Mindful and Compassionate Parenting Training

Summary

Mindful Moment (a web-based mindful and compassionate parenting training) is a self-guided program for postpartum mothers, based on the Mindful Parenting Training developed by Bögels and Restifo (2014) and the Mindful with Your Baby Training (Potharst et al., 2017, 2019). The main goal of this research is to assess the feasibility (e.g., user's adherence, dropout) and acceptability of Mindful Moment and to gather preliminary evidence of its efficacy.

This pilot RCT (Randomized Controlled Trial) will be a two-arm trial. Mothers with a child aged up to 18 months old will be enrolled in the study. A minimum number of 60 mothers will be enrolled in the study. After agreeing to participate in the study, the mothers will be screened for the presence of parenting stress (PSS \[Parenting Stress Scale\] ≥ 41, Mixão et al., 2007). In case of 41 points score or more, mothers will be asked to complete baseline assessment. Then, mothers who completed baseline assessment will be randomly assigned to one of two conditions: the intervention (Mindful Moment program) or the control condition (Waiting-List control \[WLC\]). The sample will be recruited online.

The feasibility of Mindful Moment will be evaluated in terms of user's adherence and dropout. Participation in this study will last 16 weeks. The Mindful Moment program will last 8 weeks. Participants in both conditions will be invited via email to complete baseline, post-intervention, and follow-up assessment (8-weeks after post-intervention). Assessments will include self-report questionnaires to assess user's acceptability and satisfaction, several indicators (e.g., parenting stress, depressive and anxiety symptoms, infant's temperament), and mechanisms that may be involved in the treatment response (e.g., mindful parenting, self-compassion).

Conditions

• Parenting Stress

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mindful Moment

The Mindful Moment program is a web-based self-guided cognitive-behavioral intervention to reduce parenting stress, targeting postpartum mothers. It consists of 6 weekly modules, each module targeting a specific thematic content, and providing mothers with both information and specific therapeutic strategies (with a strong focus on the third wave of cognitive-behavioral techniques) to address each thematic content. Modules are sequential.

OTHER

Waiting-List Control (WLC)

The control group only receive the intervention at the end of the intervention group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Coimbra

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Daniela V. Fernandes, MsC · Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Coimbra

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

50 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-04-15

Primary Completion

2021-10-31

Completion

2021-10-31

Countries

• Portugal

Study Locations