An Early Intervention to Increase Maternal Self-efficacy After Preterm Birth (JOIN)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02736136 |
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified July 2018 by Antje Horsch, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : April 13, 2016
Last Update Posted : July 19, 2018
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Stress Anxiety Depression | Behavioral: joint observation and video feedback | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 80 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Prevention |
Official Title: | An Early Intervention to Increase Maternal Self-efficacy After Preterm Birth |
Study Start Date : | April 2016 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date : | December 2019 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | December 2019 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Intervention
Joint observation and video feedback plus usual care in the neonatology (plus completion of self-report questionnaires and 15 min filmed mother-infant interaction)
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Behavioral: joint observation and video feedback |
No Intervention: Control
Usual care in the neonatology (plus completion of self-report questionnaires and 15 min filmed mother-infant interaction)
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- Perceived Maternal Parenting Self-Efficacy tool [ Time Frame: 1 month ]
- Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale [ Time Frame: 1 month, 6 months ]
- Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [ Time Frame: 1 month, 6 months ]
- Parental Stress Index - Short form [ Time Frame: 1 month, 6 months ]
- Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale [ Time Frame: 1 month, 6 months ]
- Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale [ Time Frame: 1 month, 6 months ]
- Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale [ Time Frame: 1 month, 6 months ]
- Infant Behaviour Questionnaire - Revised very short form [ Time Frame: 1 month, 6 months ]
- Emotional Availability Scale [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Perceived Maternal Parental Self-Efficacy tool [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- CARE-Index [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
- Satisfaction with intervention questionnaire [ Time Frame: 1 month ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Mothers of very preterm infants born between 28 and 32 weeks of gestation
- Infant aged up to 8 weeks
Exclusion Criteria:
- Do not speak French sufficiently well to participate in assessments
- Have established intellectual disability or psychotic illness
- Infant too instable regarding hemodynamic or respiratory functioning (severe brady apnea, more than 30% oxygen)

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02736136
Contact: Antje Horsch, DClinPsych. | +41 79 556 07 50 | antje.horsch@chuv.ch | |
Contact: Noémie Faure, M.Sc. | +41 21 314 17 47 | noemie.faure@chuv.ch |
Switzerland | |
Neonatology Service, University Hospital Lausanne | Recruiting |
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, 1011 | |
Contact: Jean-François Tolsa, Ph.D. +4121 314 36 92 jean-francois.tolsa@chuv.ch | |
Contact: Noémie Faure +41213144233 noemie.faure@chuv.ch | |
Principal Investigator: Horsch Antje, D.Clin.Psych. |
Principal Investigator: | Antje Horsch, DClinPsych | Clinical and Research Psychologist |
Responsible Party: | Antje Horsch, Research psychologist, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02736136 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
496/15 |
First Posted: | April 13, 2016 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | July 19, 2018 |
Last Verified: | July 2018 |
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement: | |
Plan to Share IPD: | No |
maternal parenting self-efficacy parental stress maternal sensitivity mother-infant bond |
Premature Birth Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, Traumatic Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders |
Mental Disorders Obstetric Labor, Premature Obstetric Labor Complications Pregnancy Complications |