A Randomized Controlled Trial to Improve Mother-Infant Synchrony Among Women With Childhood Adversity
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Childhood adversity affects almost two-thirds of the US population, is a major risk factor for the leading causes of disease and increases US economic health burdens. Childhood adversity also alters biologic systems, such as the oxytocin hormone, that can affect attachment behavior. This innovative study has the potential to advance science and improve mother-infant interaction by testing an early life, home-based, multisensory behavioral intervention (called ATVV), targeting the oxytocin system, to promote synchronous early mother-infant interaction, especially critical for mothers who have experienced childhood adversity. This two-group randomized clinical trial will test the ATVV's effect on oxytocin system function and quality of mother-infant interaction. The investigators will enroll 250 first-time healthy mothers carrying a single baby who have a history of childhood adversity, and obtain baseline data in their third trimester of pregnancy. Soon after birth (before hospital discharge), mothers (and babies) who continue to be eligible are randomized into the intervention group and taught to give ATVV daily for 3 months, or randomized into the Attention Control education group and taught safe infant care. After birth, the investigators check-in frequently with mothers through weekly phone calls. There are 3 study visits at 1, 2 and 3 months after birth that include survey questions and collection of maternal blood and infant saliva. Mothers and babies are also video-recorded at 3 months after birth for 4 minutes to assess mother-infant interaction. The investigators follow-up with a phone call at 6 months after birth. While both groups will benefit from the content and attention the investigators give mothers, the investigators hypothesize that, compared to the education group, mothers and infants in the intervention group will have improved oxytocin system function and more synchronous mother-infant interaction.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04818112
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 262 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- Female
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Jul 11, 2021
- Primary completion
- Mar 7, 2024
- Completion
- Jun 16, 2024
- Last update posted
- Aug 12, 2025
2021 – 2024
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tucson Medical Center | Tucson | Arizona | 85712 | — |
| Banner University Medical Center - Tucson | Tucson | Arizona | 85719 | — |
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