Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Trials. 2023 Mar 13;24(1):184. doi: 10.1186/s13063-023-07212-4.
Child health and development can be promoted by strengthening and supporting parents. Research on parental support programs based on positive psychology and a health-promoting approach aimed at all parents, and in particular parents of infants is limited. All Children in Focus (ACF) is a parental support program that has been evaluated in a randomized trial in parents of children 3-12 years. The ACF is based on health promotion aiming to increase parents' confidence and child's well-being. In the current study, we will study the effects of a revised version of the ACF called Little ACF adapted to parents with children aged 1-2 years.
The study includes a randomized controlled trial (RCT) taking place at several Child Health Centers (CHCs) in Sweden. The RCT will evaluate the efficacy of Little ACF (intervention) in comparison with four digital lectures about child development and parenting (active control). Parents are recruited at the 10-, 12-, or 18-month visits to CHC by CHC-nurses. Data to assess changes in parental competencies and child socio-emotional development are collected through online questionnaires completed by parents at five time points: baseline, post-intervention, after 6 and 12 months, and when the child is 3 years old.
The paper describes a study protocol of a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effects of a parental support program during infancy. Several issues related to the methodology and implementation are discussed.
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05445141. Registered on 6 July 2022.
通过加强和支持父母,可以促进儿童健康和发展。基于积极心理学和促进健康方法的父母支持计划研究旨在针对所有父母,尤其是婴儿的父母,目前还很有限。All Children in Focus(ACF)是一项父母支持计划,已在一项针对 3-12 岁儿童父母的随机试验中进行了评估。ACF 基于健康促进,旨在增强父母的信心和孩子的幸福感。在当前研究中,我们将研究适用于 1-2 岁儿童父母的 ACF 修订版(称为 Little ACF)的效果。
该研究包括在瑞典多个儿童健康中心(CHC)进行的随机对照试验(RCT)。RCT 将评估 Little ACF(干预)与四个关于儿童发展和育儿的数字讲座(主动对照)的疗效比较。CHC 护士通过 CHC 在 10 个月、12 个月或 18 个月时招募父母。通过父母在五个时间点(基线、干预后、6 个月后和 12 个月后以及孩子 3 岁时)完成的在线问卷收集评估父母能力和儿童社会情感发展变化的数据。
本文介绍了一项评估婴儿期父母支持计划效果的随机对照试验的研究方案。讨论了与方法学和实施相关的几个问题。
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05445141。于 2022 年 7 月 6 日注册。