Impact of Traumatic Childbirth on Mother-baby Dyadic Interaction and Maternal Psychological Outcome: a Prospective Study

NCT ID: NCT06587373

Last Updated: 2024-09-19

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-01-02
• Study Completion Date: 2026-07-31

Brief Summary

While a significant percentage of women in France have difficult pregnancies and negative childbirth experiences, there is still lack of documentation on the impact of these traumatic experiences on maternal health and mother-child relationships. Few studies have focused on the mental health of mothers, despite traumatic experiences being a risk factor for post-traumatic stress, depressive disorders, and suicide. The findings also highlights the maternal withdrawals and intrusions in interaction with the child, which are associated with guilt and feelings of helplessness, a risk to the emotional regulation of the child. Additionally, avoidance symptoms resulting from traumatic experiences delay mothers' seeking help and the early management of dysfunctional interactions. Therefore, assessing the mother-child interactions is important in understanding perinatal psychopathology.

Detailed Description

The population include the mother-infant dyads participated in the previous study TOPASE).

The study population comprises 2 groups: a group of women who have experienced a traumatic birth and/or a birth perceived as traumatic by the midwives, and a group of women who have experienced a non-traumatic birth and/or a birth perceived as non-traumatic by the midwives.

The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of traumatic childbirth on the quality of mother-baby dyadic interaction and describe the impact of traumatic childbirth on the mother's mental health and the child's psychomotor and social-emotional development.

Conditions

Parturition Complication

Study Design

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

Study Groups

traumatic childbirth

Assessment of the quality of mother-child dyadic relationships

Intervention Type: OTHER

Filling out questionnaires

non traumatic childbirth

Assessment of the quality of mother-child dyadic relationships

Intervention Type: OTHER

Filling out questionnaires

Interventions

Assessment of the quality of mother-child dyadic relationships

Filling out questionnaires

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Women who participated in the TOPASE study
• Non-opposition indicating that the subject agrees to participate in the study and to abide by the requirements and restrictions inherent to this study (including hair sampling for mother and child)
• Affiliation with a French social security scheme or beneficiary of such a scheme
• Women belonging to the "Traumatic delivery" group: QEVA and/or QETRAS score less than or equal to the first quartile
• Women belonging to the "Non-traumatic delivery" group: QEVA and/or QETRAS score greater than or equal to the third quartile

• No opposition from holders of parental authority

Exclusion Criteria

• Persons deprived of their liberty by a judicial or administrative decision; persons under compulsory psychiatric care; persons admitted to a health or social establishment for purposes other than research.
• adults under legal protection or unable to express their consent
• Subjects in the exclusion period of another study or in the "national volunteer file".
• Subject unlikely to cooperate with the study and/or poor cooperation anticipated by the investigator
• Refusal to take hair samples from the dyad
• Refusal of video recording of dyad
• Language barrier preventing understanding of instructions
• Cognitive impairment preventing understanding of study instructions
• Women whose child had been hospitalized in intensive care for more than a week or had died

Concerning the child :

• Child with organic malformation and/or objectified genetic anomaly

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

Sponsors

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

CHU de Besançon

Besançon, , France

Countries

France

Central Contacts

astrid POZET

Role: CONTACT

aopozet@chu-besancon.fr

33381218988

Facility Contacts

Monika Szymanska

Role: primary

mszymanska@chu-besancon.fr

+33381219352

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Reference Type: BACKGROUND

Other Identifiers

2024/898

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id