Transmission of Mother-Infant Stress Communication

NCT ID: NCT02013401

Last Updated: 2018-10-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 56 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2013-10-31
• Study Completion Date: 2016-07-14

Brief Summary

The central aim of this study is to assess mother-infant communication via behavioral, physiological, and affective indices under conditions where distal stressors may not be directly detectable by the infant.

Detailed Description

This investigation examines a distal maternal stressor on the quality of interaction in mother-infant dyadic communication. Assessments include behavioral, physiological, and affective indices under conditions where distal stressors may not be directly detectable by the infant. The present research examines mother-infant interactions to test the hypothesis of whether maternal stress may be transduced to their infants via multiple pathways. The secondary aim is to explore effective emotion regulation strategies for the mother as potential buffers to stress and additionally reducing early life stress effects on the infant's regulatory development.

While the emotion regulation literature posits that reappraisal may be associated with decreased in physiological and psychological stress, this type of regulation strategy may be ineffective when interfacing with discrimination. The regulation strategy needs to be titrated to the stressor in order to be effective. These findings will have notable social, clinical, and psychological significance,

Conditions

Stress

Study Design

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

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Healthy volunteers

Exclusion Criteria

• No presence of heart murmur or wear a pacemaker
• No medication for hypertensive or cardiovascular disease
• Not using beta blockers

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 40 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Massachusetts, Boston

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Kymberlee O'Brien, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Celia L Moore, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Director of DSRC and Horizon Center

Edward Tronick, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Director Child Development Unit

Locations

University of Mass. Boston

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

University of Massachusetts, Boston, Child Development Unit

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

2013173

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id