Piersiak Hannah A, Takemoto Sydney, Bailes Lauren G, Kwasneski Kate, Salo Virginia C, King Lucy S, Humphreys Kathryn L
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University.
Dev Psychol. 2025 Sep 1. doi: 10.1037/dev0002062.
Caregiving interventions are typically personalized and time intensive, creating barriers to access and use. To address these limitations, in a preregistered study of 120 first-time parents (93 mothers, 27 fathers) of 4- to 6-month-old infants, we tested the impact of a standardized, interactive, single-session video-based intervention (Teach by Example). Participants in the intervention condition (N = 60) were asked to view caregiver-child interactions and rate caregiver sensitivity, warmth, and intrusiveness, as compared to a written information condition, which instructed participants (N = 60) to read about these three caregiving behaviors. Postintervention, participants assigned to Teach by Example, compared to those in the written information condition, were coded as more sensitive and less intrusive in their caregiving during an interaction with their infant and reported lower levels of impaired affiliation with their infant and greater parental self-efficacy. Group differences in warmth were moderate and not statistically significant. Findings support the promise of Teach by Example, a single-session online intervention, for first-time parents. This scalable, low-cost approach requiring minimal resources offers a promising solution for supporting first-time parents during a critical developmental period, with potential for wide implementation as a primary prevention approach. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
照护干预通常是个性化且耗时的，这为获取和使用带来了障碍。为解决这些限制，在一项对120名4至6个月大婴儿的首次为人父母者（93名母亲，27名父亲）进行的预注册研究中，我们测试了一种标准化、交互式、单节视频干预（以身作则）的效果。与书面信息组相比，干预组（N = 60）的参与者被要求观看照护者与孩子的互动，并对照护者的敏感性、温暖度和侵扰性进行评分，书面信息组则指导参与者（N = 60）阅读有关这三种照护行为的内容。干预后，与书面信息组的参与者相比，被分配到“以身作则”组的参与者在与婴儿互动时被编码为在照护中更敏感且侵扰性更小，并且报告称与婴儿的亲密关系受损程度较低，父母自我效能感更高。温暖度方面的组间差异适中且无统计学意义。研究结果支持了“以身作则”这一单节在线干预对首次为人父母者的前景。这种可扩展、低成本且所需资源极少的方法为在关键发育阶段支持首次为人父母者提供了一个有前景的解决方案，有可能作为一种一级预防方法广泛实施。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2025美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
