Mother-infant Bonding in the Brain: Promoting Maternal Mental Health and High-quality Mother-infant Interactions Via a Mindfulness-based Intervention

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

The study investigates the effectiveness of the mindfulness-based intervention Mindful with your Baby in women with babies between 5-9 months postpartum who experience heightened levels of postpartum depression, anxiety and/or parental stress. The intervention Mindful with your Baby is one of the very few interventions for maternal postnatal mental health issues that takes the bond between mother and infant into account. It is hypothesized that the Mindful with your Baby intervention will reduce levels of postpartum depression, anxiety and parental stress, and improve mother-infant behavioral interaction and increase neural synchrony between mother and infant brains.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: Female
Minimum Age: 18
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Pregnant women (18+y).

• First antenatal visit \< 12 weeks.

• Score above cut off on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), the anxiety subscale of the Symptom Checklist (SCL-90) and/or the Parental Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) at 8-10 weeks postpartum.

• Dutch-speaking or understanding Dutch.

Locations
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Netherlands
Tilburg University
RECRUITING
Tilburg
Contact Information
Primary
Marion I van den Heuvel, PhD
m.i.vdnheuvel@tilburguniversity.edu
+31134664085
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-07-01
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-09
Participants
Target number of participants: 64
Treatments
Experimental: Mindful with your Baby group-based therapist-guided intervention (Intervention group)
Group-based Mindful with your Baby therapist-guided intervention via a video-conferencing tool (e.g., Zoom).
Other: Mindful with your baby self-guided online intervention (Waitlist control group)
The waitlist control group receives an individual self-guided online Mindful with your baby intervention after a 10-week waiting period.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Tilburg University

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