Connect to Baby: Parenting and Coparenting Program
This study is testing a program called Connect to Baby (CTB), which is a 6-session program for parents of infants. It aims to help both mothers and fathers improve their parenting skills and how they work together as co-parents. CTB focuses on four interaction skills: Noticing, Following, Talking, and Encouraging (NiFTE) to help parents connect with their babies and each other. Researchers will measure how warm and accepting parents are during interactions with their children at the start of the study, and then again at 3 and 6 months. You might be able to join if you are a mother, father, or father figure (like a grandparent or same-sex parent) of an infant between 2 and 24 months old, and you can speak and read English or Spanish.
- Study design
- This is a randomized control trial, meaning participants will be randomly assigned to different groups. The study plans to enroll 200 participants.
- What's involved
- Not specified in the trial record.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Your parent-child interactions will be measured at the start of the study, and then again at 3 months and 6 months.
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Connect to Baby: A Pilot Study of a Parenting and Coparenting Program
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Rebecca Ryan, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Georgetown University
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Inclusion
What this trial measures
- Parent Acceptance/Warmth during parent-child interactionsAt baseline (when families are enrolled in the study)
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent Acceptance/Warmth during parent-child interactions3 months
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent Acceptance/Warmth during parent-child interactions6 months
Positive parenting behaviors as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent Descriptive Language during parent-child interactionsAt baselined (when families enroll in the study)
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent Descriptive Language during parent-child interactions3 months
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent Descriptive Language during parent-child interactions6 months
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent Follows child's lead during parent-child interactionsAt baseline (when families enroll in the study)
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent Follows child's lead during parent-child interactions3 months
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent Follows child's lead during parent-child interactions6 months
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent Extends Child's Focus during parent-child interactionsAt baseline (when families enroll in the study
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent Extends Child's Focus during parent-child interactions3 months
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent Extends Child's Focus during parent-child interactions6 months
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent restricts child during parent-child interactionsAt baseline (when families enroll in the study)
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent restricts child during parent-child interactions3 months
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent restricts child during parent-child interactions6 months
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent criticizes child during parent-child interactionsAt baseline (when families enroll in the study)
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent criticizes child during parent-child interactions3 months
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Parent criticizes child during parent-child interactions6 months
Qualitative rating (0-4 scale) of as coded from a 25 minute parent-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality:mother-father pleasure in coparentingAt baseline (when families enroll in the study)
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality:mother-father pleasure in coparenting3 months
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality:mother-father pleasure in coparenting6 months
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: displeasure in coparentingAt baseline (when families enroll in the study)
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: displeasure in coparenting3 months
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: displeasure in coparenting6 months
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: interactivenessat baseline (when families enroll in the study)
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: interactiveness3 months
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: interactiveness6 months
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: cooperationAt baseline (when families enroll in the study)
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: cooperation3 months
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: cooperation6 months
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: competitionAt baseline (when families enroll in the study)
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: competition3 months
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Quality: competition6 months
Qualitative rating scale (1-5) as coded from a 25 minutes mother-father-child interaction
- Coparenting Relationship ScaleAt baseline (when families enroll in the study)
Coparenting relationship scale measuring quality of communication, 14 items, scale 1-6.
- Coparenting Relationship Scale3 months
Coparenting relationship scale measuring quality of communication, 14 items, scale 1-6.
- Coparenting Relationship Scale6 months
Coparenting relationship scale measuring quality of communication, 14 items, scale 1-6.
- Father Engagement ScaleAt baseline (when families enroll in the study)
Father Engagement Scale, measuring fathers' engagement in 11 activities with infants, scale 0 - 4
- Father Engagement Scale3 months
Father Engagement Scale, measuring fathers' engagement in 11 activities with infants, scale 0 - 4
- Father Engagement Scale6 months
Father Engagement Scale, measuring fathers' engagement in 11 activities with infants, scale 0 - 4