Supporting Parenting at Home: Empowering Rehabilitation Through Engagement (SPHERE)

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

168 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-01-07

Study Completion Date

2023-12-31

Brief Summary

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Infants with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (ND) show emotional, cognitive and socio-interactive dysregulation dramatically impacting on caregiving behavior. Early family-centered rehabilitation interventions are effective in promoting better infant outcomes and in optimizing healthcare systems economic return in the long-term. The Video Feedback intervention (VFI) is effective in promoting sensitive parenting and supporting infants' development. In the light of limited resources of the healthcare systems, technological advance in telemedicine may facilitate the delivery of VFI to a greater number of families of infants with ND. Consistently, the Supporting Parenting at Home: Empowering Rehabilitation through Engagement (SPHERE) project is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) aiming at assessing effectiveness and efficacy of an early family centered VFI parenting support delivered through videoconferencing on dyads with infants with ND.

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Detailed Description

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Infants with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (ND) show emotional, cognitive and socio-interactive dysregulation dramatically impacting on caregiving behavior. Parents may report critical emotional burden with heightened risk for chronic levels of distress, depression and anxiety. This constitutes a crucial point considering that parenting represents the first preventive factors for infants' development also in the presence of ND conditions. Thus, it is not surprising that early rehabilitation interventions that focus on the parent-infant dyad have been found to be the most effective in recent meta-analytic study and to be the most rewarding for healthcare systems in terms of economic return in the long-term. Specifically, the VFI constitutes an early family-centered intervention that proved to be effective in promoting sensitive parenting and supporting infants' behavioral and socio-emotional development. The use of VFI intervention has been also documented to be beneficial in dyads of children with neurodevelopmental disability reducing child's disruptive and emotionally negative behaviors; promoting maternal sensitivity, increasing self- efficacy and reducing parenting stress. It should be highlighted that delivering VFI in hospital or home-based context should be highly demanding for the healthcare systems due to high cost and disparities in access to the service for families in remote areas. As such, delivering VFI through telemedicine approaches (e.g., videoconferencing) appears to hold promises of promoting a reduction in inequality of care, greater access to early family-centered support and a more effective and efficient promotion of health outcomes for infants with ND. We still do not know how a VFI support for parents of infants with ND may end up in being effective and efficient in terms of promoting infants' development and parental health. Consistently, the Supporting Parenting at Home: Empowering Rehabilitation through Engagement (SPHERE) project is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) aiming at assessing effectiveness of an early family centered VFI parenting support delivered through videoconferencing on dyads with infants with ND.

The SPHERE RCT will include two arms (see arm description) and three assessment phases: T0, baseline; T1, immediate post-intervention; T2, follow-up (6 months after the intervention). For both arms, standardized assessment sessions will include video-recording of mother-infant interaction and maternal self-report scales (depression \[Beck Depression Inventory, BDI; Beck et al., 1961\]; anxiety \[State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, STAI-Y, Spielberg, 1983\] parenting stress, \[Parenting Stress Index, PSI; Abidin, 1983\] and infants' temperament \[Infant Behavior Questionnaire Revised, IBQ-R, Gartstein et al., 2003\]).

Conditions

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Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Telemedicine Video Feedback Arm

Mother-child dyads will take part into a 6 video-conference sessions of Video Feedback (vVF). The vVF will be standardized according to previously published RCTs. Specifically, the 6 vVFI sessions will be organized in two subsequent phases: 4 sessions based on sharing the focus on different relational themes, and 2 sessions of interactive integration. In more specific terms, during the first set of 4 sessions the psychologist will review with mothers' segments of the videotapes obtained during the baseline assessment and will focus on four different relational themes: responsiveness, physical stimulation, teaching, and parenting experience. During the interactive integration session, the insights developed from the first 4 videoconferences will be applied to the real-time interaction between the parent and his/her infant under the guidance of the psychologist.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Telemedicine Video Feedback Intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

Mother-child dyads will take part into a 6 video-conference sessions of Video Feedback (vVF). The vVF will be standardized according to previously published RCTs. Specifically, the 6 vVFI sessions will be organized in two subsequent phases: 4 sessions based on sharing the focus on different relational themes, and 2 sessions of interactive integration. In more specific terms, during the first set of 4 sessions the psychologist will review with mothers' segments of the videotapes obtained during the baseline assessment and will focus on four different relational themes: responsiveness, physical stimulation, teaching, and parenting experience. During the interactive integration session, the insights developed from the first 4 videoconferences will be applied to the real-time interaction between the parent and his/her infant under the guidance of the psychologist.

Psychoeducational booklet arm

Mothers assigned to condition B will receive an informative booklet addressing the same themes discussed in the experimental intervention (i.e., responsiveness, physical stimulation, teaching, and parenting experience), but not tailored on their own infant or specific parenting challenges.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Psychoeducational Booklet Intervention

Intervention Type OTHER

Mothers of this condition will receive an informative booklet addressing the same themes included in the experimental intervention (responsiveness, physical stimulation, teaching, and parenting experience), but not tailored on their own infant status.

Interventions

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Telemedicine Video Feedback Intervention

Mother-child dyads will take part into a 6 video-conference sessions of Video Feedback (vVF). The vVF will be standardized according to previously published RCTs. Specifically, the 6 vVFI sessions will be organized in two subsequent phases: 4 sessions based on sharing the focus on different relational themes, and 2 sessions of interactive integration. In more specific terms, during the first set of 4 sessions the psychologist will review with mothers' segments of the videotapes obtained during the baseline assessment and will focus on four different relational themes: responsiveness, physical stimulation, teaching, and parenting experience. During the interactive integration session, the insights developed from the first 4 videoconferences will be applied to the real-time interaction between the parent and his/her infant under the guidance of the psychologist.

Intervention Type OTHER

Psychoeducational Booklet Intervention

Mothers of this condition will receive an informative booklet addressing the same themes included in the experimental intervention (responsiveness, physical stimulation, teaching, and parenting experience), but not tailored on their own infant status.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* infants' (corrected) age between 1 and 18 months;
* presence of developmental risk or diagnosis of ND as defined by standardized clinical criteria;
* parental age greater than 18 years;
* parental mastery of Italian language;
* parents living together with the infant.