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Smart.Baby-Study - a study to investigate the influence of maternal smartphone use on mother-child-interaction

Smart.Baby-Study - a study to investigate the influence of maternal smartphone use on mother-child-interaction - Smart.Baby-Study

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00014677
Enrollment
150
Registered
2019-04-09
Start date
2019-04-03
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-04-07

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Conditions

Assessing the influence of maternal smartphone-use to mother-child interaction quality.

Interventions

Group 1: It is an observational study in which the disruption of a mother-child-interaction by Smartphones is assessed. For this purpose, the behavior of mother and child in the observation is analyze

Sponsors

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

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
Female
Age
18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Mothers, 18 Years and older, in partnership, with only one child, Mother tongue: German

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
Effects of Material smartphone-user on mother-child-interaction and childlike stress-experience; T0: parental Bonding experiences: Parental bonding questionnaire (PBQ); reflective functioning: Parental reflective functioning questionnaire (PRFQ); mental health: SCL-90-R; traumatic childhood experiences: ACE

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
T0-T1: Material smartphone-use via Application, Measure of frequency and manner of smartphone-user as well as in pre- and absence of the child T1: heart rate variability of mother and Child during the Adapter still-face-paradigma with Interruption of the mother-child-interaction through the smartphone-use of the mother

Countries

Austria

Contacts

Public ContactKatharina Trost

Institut für Early Life Care Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität Salzburg

katharina.trost@pmu.ac.at0043662242080594

Outcome results

None listed

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