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Effectiveness of a Baby App for Enhancing Infant Mental Well-being (RCT)

NCT06163560 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 586

Last updated 2025-03-28

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Summary

This RCT aims to design and develop a developmental guidance program delivered by a smartphone app "Happy Baby HK" and evaluate its effectiveness for enhancing the mental well-being of recently born infants in Hong Kong. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of the improvement in the effect of infants and decrease of risk of developmental delay in very young children.

The smartphone app "Happy Baby HK" will be designed and developed by different professionals. Then, participants will be invited to use this app or the MCHC parenting booklet. They will also be invited to fill in some questionnaires at 6, 12 and 18 months postpartum to screen the developmental stages. Researchers will compare the intervention group and the control group to evaluate the effectiveness of this app for enhancing the mental well-being of infants.

Conditions

  • Child Development

Interventions

DEVICE

Smartphone app "Happy Baby HK"

"Happy Baby HK" will provide developmental stage, developmental aspects, parenting videos and cartoon images created for new mothers.

DEVICE

Family Health Service parenting booklet

The parenting booklet is publicly available and provides brief caretaking tips for mothers with children under 3 years of age.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Winnie Wan Yee Tso, MBBS · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Day
Max Age
18 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-04-01
Primary Completion
2026-12-31
Completion
2027-12-31

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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