Infant Abdominal Massage on Postnatal Stress Level

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Parenting; Stress

Treatments: Other: Abdominal massage training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05650424

HKUCTR-3008

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this randomized control trial is to find out the effects of infant abdominal massage on postnatal stress level among Chinese parents in Hong Kong with babies under 1 year old. The main question[s] it aims to answer are:

• examine the effects of infant abdominal massage on postnatal stress level among Chinese parents in Hong Kong
• the relationship between the compliance of the intervention and the change of parental stress level Participants in intervention group will receive a abdominal massage training session and will perform on their baby. Parental stress level will be assess week 0 and four weeks .

If there is a comparison group: Researchers will compare wait-listed control group to see if there is any change on their parental stress level

Full description

same as above

Enrollment: 160 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Parents aged 18 or above.
2. Parents with 0-1 year old full term babies without medical treatment of colic.
3. Able to communicate or read Chinese and have not tried applying infant massage on their babies.

Exclusion criteria

1. Parents with babies who had abdominal surgery.
2. Currently participating in any other massage related studies.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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160 participants in 2 patient groups

Wait-listed Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

wait-listed control group will be put on wait list and receive abdominal massage class training on week 4 (posttest)

Treatment:

Other: Abdominal massage training

Intervention (Receive abdominal massage training)

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention group will receive abdominal massage training class and they will perform abdominal massage on their baby for 4 week. Parental stress level will be assessed on week 0 and week 4

Treatment:

Other: Abdominal massage training