Promoting Optimal Parenting (Bright Start)

Seattle Children's Healthcare System

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cognitive Development; Emotional Development

Treatments: Behavioral: Parenting Education; Behavioral: Control Group - Safety Materials

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01573793

1R01HD068478-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

13852

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if providing parenting education materials delivered in different ways during the first 30 months of a child's life will increase child-parent attachment and promote mother-child interaction, if certain types of strategies improve cognitive, language, and emotional development in infants and toddlers, and if our way of delivering these materials is cost-effective.

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 23 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English-speaking
• 18-23 year-old first-time mother of a healthy newborn

Exclusion criteria

• Anything other than above

Trial design

500 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

Will receive parenting educational materials hypothesized to enhance emotional and cognitive development

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parenting Education

Control

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Will receive safety and dental hygiene materials that have no bearing on emotional and cognitive development

Treatment:

Behavioral: Control Group - Safety Materials