prematurity
Conditions
Interventions
Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) will be applied as intervention. The sessions
of the VIG comprise video-taped parent-infant interactions during hospital stay
at the first day, after 3 days and at 1
Sponsors
Universiteit van Tilburg
Eligibility
Age
2 Years to 99 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: I: birth before 32 weeks gestational age, II: birth between 32 and 37 weeks gestational age, III: birth after 37 weeks gestational age.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Congenital malformations, substance abuse of the mother, neonatal intensive care admittance (except for the extreme preterm group)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Parent-infant bonding The Yale Inventory of Parental thoughts and Actions (YIPTA; Leckman et al., 1994) is a semi-structured interview that assesses various aspects of parental bonding. It consists of six subscales, i.e., frequency of thoughts and worries, distress caused by thoughts and worries, distress management; compulsive checking; affiliative behaviour, attachment representations and; frequency of caretaking behaviour. The instrument is extensively validated in a longitudinal study by Leckman et al. (2003) with extreme and moderately preterm infants. The Working Model of the Child Interview (WMCI; Zeanah & Benoit, 1995) is a semi-structured interview to assess caregivers* internal representations or working models of their relationship with a particular child and focuses on the parent*s subjective experiences from the time of pregnancy to current interactions. The WMCI has been used for clinical and research purposes and has proven widely applicable from low risk to clinical populations (Benoit et al., 1997) with high stability rates and predictive validity with regard to infant-mother attachment (Benoit et al., in press; Zeanah et al., 1994). The Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire (PBQ: Brockington et al., 2001) will be used to assess the quality of bonding and bonding disorders in the postpartum period at Time 1 and Time 2. The PBQ is a new 24 item screening instrument that can be easily administered by mothers who gave birth to an infant. For practical relevance a short screening instrument in the neonatal period would be useful to discern mothers at risk for bonding disorders and subsequent adverse parenting behaviour. Quality of parent-infant interaction • Parental and infant interactive behaviour will be rated from videotapes recorded during a bath/changing diaper situation at home. Four (5 or 9-point rating scales (Emotional Availability Scales; Biringen, Robinson, & Emde, 1998) will be used to rate parental sensitivity/availab | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The relationshop between outcomes of different instruments and moderator variables will be studied within the groups. See protocol for measures and variables | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed