Association Between Mother-Infant Attunement During Interaction and the Quality of General Movements

NCT ID: NCT01764958

Last Updated: 2015-07-08

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 61 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-04-30
• Study Completion Date: 2015-06-30

Brief Summary

The proposed research has the potential of contributing to the limited empirical literature on the relationship between maternal sensitivity and motor development of preterm infants. If indeed maternal attuned behaviors will be found to be associated with the quality of motor development, such a finding will support the effectiveness of physical therapy in guiding caregivers to attune their holding and touch of preterm infants.

We hypothesize that mothers and infants' attunement during observed interaction will be related to the quality of preterm infants' spontaneous movements in the following ways: First, better maternal attunement to the infants needs, and in particular attunement of holding and touch will be associated with better quality of spontaneous movements of the infants. Second, more initiations and/or involvement of infants in interaction will be associated with better maternal attunement to the infant. Third, more initiations and/or involvement of infants in interaction will be associated with better quality of spontaneous movements and better achievements in developmental milestone. All hypotheses will be examined while controlling for maternal use of SSC method during hospitalization after birth and family demographic backgrounds.

Detailed Description

Sixty preterm infants at 3-4 months of corrected age and their mothers will be recruited. Infants will be evaluated for their spontaneous movements and their developmental milestones achievement, and mothers and infants will be evaluated for their attunement during observed interaction, especially on maternal attunement in holding and touching their infants. Mothers will report on demographic background of the family, temperament of their infants and previous Skin to Skin Contact treatment in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

Conditions

Premature Birth

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

preterm infants and their mothers

Inclusion criteria are: preterm infants born between 26-34 weeks of gestation, whose mothers speak and write Hebrew fluently. Exclusion criteria are: preterm infants who suffer from perinatal asphyxia, genetic or metabolic diseases, necrotizing colitis that requires operation, intra uterine growth retardation, deafness, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) or major congenital defects.

Infants and their mothers will be recruited from child developmental centers and Pediatric Clinics of Maccabi. No intervention is included in the research.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

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Exclusion Criteria

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• Minimum Eligible Age: 4 Months
• Maximum Eligible Age: 8 Months
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Assuta Hospital Systems

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Orna Lev enacab, BPT

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Assuta Hospital, Tel Aviv

Locations

Maccabi Healthcare services

Naẕerat ‘Illit, , Israel

Countries

Israel

Other Identifiers

sponsor

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id