Internal and Familial Resources and Motherhood. Follow Up of Mothers With Twins and Preterm Infants Versus Mothers With Single Full Term Infants

The Contribution of Internal and Familial Resources to the Development of Motherhood. Long Term Follow Up of Mothers With Twins and Preterm Infants Versus Mothers With Single Full Term Infants

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00320840

Enrollment

150

Registered

2006-05-03

Start date

2006-05-31

Completion date

2012-05-31

Last updated

2006-05-03

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Conditions

Preterm Infants, Twins

Keywords

preterm infants, twins, motherhood, internal resources, familial resources

Brief summary

To evaluate the contribution of internal and familial resources on the development of motherhood in a population of mothers having preterm twin infants and comparing this population to a population of mothers giving birth to single (or twins) full term infants.

Detailed description

150 mothers will participate in this study. The study is using 4 questionnaires at infants ages of 1 month, 1 year, 2 years and 4 years. The questionnaires are involving communication skills,grandparents support, stress feelings, psychological parameters, parity functioning, infant temperament, self assessment, maternal and infant medical background and twins and brotherhood evaluation. a comparison will be done between mothers to preterm twins and mothers to single full term infants.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

DEFINED_POPULATION

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

2 Weeks to 3 Months

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* preterm infants * twins

Exclusion criteria

Countries

Israel

Contacts

Primary ContactJacob kuint, MD

kuint-j@sheba.health.gov.il972-3-5303030

Outcome results