SMaRT Mom - Smartphone Management and Responsive Time for Breastfeeding Mothers

Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Mother-Infant Interaction; Breastfeeding; Smartphone Addiction; Infant Behavior

Treatments: Behavioral: SMaRT Mom

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06030830

IG30623

Details and patient eligibility

About

In the last decade, infants are born into a social environment in which the smartphone has become an essential part of our lives. Smartphone use draws the mother's attention during mother-infant interactions and thus may affect the infant development as well as maternal self-efficacy. However, the effects of smartphone use reduction among breastfeeding mothers during their interactions with their infants have not been studied yet. In the present study, we propose to evaluate a "SMaRT Mom" intervention that we have developed, to manage and reduce smartphone use during breastfeeding. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effects of the SMaRT Mom intervention on breastfeeding mothers' biobehavioral mechanisms, self-efficacy and the socioemotional characteristics of their infants. This will extend our knowledge of the peculiarities of early mother-infant interactions in the digital era, when smartphones play a critical role.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 20 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 3-6 months old infant
• Smartphone Addiction Scale' cut-off (31 and above)

Exclusion criteria

• No neurological disorders
• No heart disease
• No anxiety and depression
• No use of psychiatric drugs

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be instructed not to use the smartphone during breastfeeding for a week

Treatment:

Behavioral: SMaRT Mom

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will not be instructed not to use the smartphone during breastfeeding for a week