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A randomised controlled trial to evaluate "SAFE® - Basic Trust", an intervention to support attachment security and parental mentalization

A randomised controlled trial to evaluate "SAFE® - Basic Trust", an intervention to support attachment security and parental mentalization - Basic Trust – Study

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00013099
Enrollment
731
Registered
2019-06-03
Start date
2019-06-19
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-06

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

O00-O99 F00-F99

Interventions

Group 1: Group 1: Intervention group "SAFE® - Basic Trust": The Intervention "SAFE® - Basic Trust" - is a manualised, low-threshold, short-term intervention that is conducted as home visits (outreach

Sponsors

Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität Salzburg, Insitut für Early Life Care
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: primiparous parents that live in a relationship, age over 18 years

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: psychotic and/or manic symptoms in the parents, inadequate knowledge of German, drug use, serious health problems in the mother, and/or in the unborn child, prenatal complications

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
classification of the attachment quality with father resp. mother. method: Strange Situation (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978) with mother and child when the child is 12 months old and with father and child when the child is 15 months old. possible outcomes: secure attachment, anxious-ambivalent attachment, anxious-avoidant attachment, disorganized/disoriented attachment

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
parental ability to mentalise (Parent Development Interview; Aber, Slade, Berger, Bresgi, & Kaplan, 1985); coparenting quality (Coparenting Relationship Scale; Feinberg, Brown, & Kan, 2012); parental sensitivity in the interaction with the child (Emotional Availability Scale; Biringen, 2008)

Countries

Austria

Contacts

Public ContactAntonia Dinzinger

Institut für Early Life CareParacelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität

elc-institut@pmu.ac.at+43 662 2420-80595

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026