A study of the effects of "Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Infants (PCIT-Toddlers)" on the parent-child relationship in late preterm infants.

JRCT ID: jRCT1040240068

Registered date:08/08/2024

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Recruiting
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: Preterm Birth
• Date of first enrollment: 09/08/2024
• Target sample size: 80
• Study type: Interventional
• Intervention(s): The intervention group will be provided with a live coach to help caregivers develop a "Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with Toddlers" (hereafter PCIT-Toddlers), an intervention that aims to promote qualitative improvements in parent-child playground interactions, and a "Child DirectedInteraction-Toddler ("CDI-T"), an intervention that aims to promote qualitative improvement of parent-child playground interaction.The duration of the program will be 4 months, 40 minutes per session, and a total of 6 sessions will be conducted either in person or via the Internet.For the control group, the principal investigator will send the caregivers a parenting communication via text message application (6 sessions in total) during the 4-month period.Each parenting communication will provide six general parenting topics: exercise, play, social skills, diet, lifestyle, and comprehension language.

Outcome(s)

• Primary Outcome: DECA-Toddler : Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (provisional Japanese version of DECA)

Secondary Outcome

The Brief Infant Toddler Social Emotional Assessment
Parenting Stress Index short form
Dyadic Parent Child Interaction Coding System

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: >= 1age old
• Age maximum: <= 3age old
• Gender: Both
• Include criteria: (1) Children between 1 year and 2 years and 6 months old at the time of recruitment among those who survived and were discharged from our NICU (2) Children born between 34 weeks 0 days and 36 weeks 6 days of gestation (3) Primary caregiver who lives with the child and can be involved with the child daily
• Exclude criteria: (1) When a caregiver refuses to participate in this study (2) When a child survives and is discharged from the hospital due to multiple births (two or more children) (3) When a child has chromosomal abnormalities or obvious visual, auditory, or motor impairments (4) When a caregiver lives separately from the child (5) When a caregiver uses a language other than Japanese (6) When the principal investigator determines that it is difficult to conduct the study (7) When a child is receiving individual parent-child or(vii) When the principal investigator judges that it is difficult to conduct the research.

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: Yamada Rie