Trial reportPloS one2016
The Incredible Years Parents and Babies Program: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in PloS one, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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A Randomised Controlled Pilot Trial of The Incredible Years Parents and Babies Program in Denmark
INFANT HEALTH- Supporting Infants' Mental Health and Healthy Weight Development Through Community Health Nurses' Promoting Sensitive Parenting
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Parenting interventions to promote early child development in the first three years of life: A global systematic review and meta-analysis.PLoS medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Acceptance and Commitment Training for Parents of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
- Effects on Child Development and Parent-Child Interaction of the FACAM Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Study of an Interdisciplinary Intervention to Support Women in Vulnerable Positions through Pregnancy and Early Motherhood.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Trial
- Comparison of video and in-hospital consultations during early in-home care for premature infants and their families: A randomised trial.Journal of telemedicine and telecare · 2022Trial
- Mapping What Works to Strengthen the Relational Ecology of Early Child Development: A Systematic Scoping Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Article
- A Scoping Review of Instruments Used to Measure Weight and Body Composition in Infants Under 1 Year.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Article
- Effects on Maternal Mental Health and Parental Functioning of an Interdisciplinary Intervention to Support Women in Vulnerable Positions Through Pregnancy and Early Motherhood: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Integrative mindfulness-based infant parenting program: theoretical foundations and a novel intervention protocol.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Parenting and family self-sufficiency services contribute to impacts of Early Head Start for children and families.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Baby and us: Community-based, Feasibility Trial of a Psychosocial Intervention for New Parents and their Infants.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2022Article
- Parent-child Relationship Outcomes of the Incredible Years Parents and Babies Program: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2022Article
- Evidence base review of couple- and family-based psychosocial interventions to promote infant and early childhood mental health, 2010-2019.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2022Review
- What do parents think of using informational videos to support recruitment for parenting trials? A qualitative study.Trials · 2021Article
- "Putting Meat on the Bones": Understanding the Implementation of a Community-Based Early Intervention and Prevention Programme-Contextual, Person, and Programme Influences.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Article
- One-year follow-up of The Incredible Years Parents and Babies Program: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2020Article
- Parent and facilitator experiences of an intensive parent and infant programme delivered in routine community settings.Primary health care research & development · 2019Article
- Is it possible to improve early childhood development with a video-feedback intervention directed at the mother-father-child triad?Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2019Article
- Maternal confidence after birth in at-risk and not-at-risk mothers: internal and external validity of the Danish version of the Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale (KPCS).Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2019Article
- The Relevance of Infant Outcome Measures: A Pilot-RCT Comparing Baby Triple P Positive Parenting Program With Care as Usual.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
introductionInfancy is an important period of life; adverse experiences during this stage can have both immediate and lifelong impacts on the child's mental health and well-being. This study evaluates the effects of offering the Incredible Years Parents and Babies (IYPB) program as a universal intervention.
methodWe conducted a pragmatic, two-arm, parallel pilot randomized controlled trial; 112 families with newborns were randomized to the IYPB program (76) or usual care (36) with a 2:1 allocation ratio. The primary outcome was parenting confidence at 20 weeks(Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale and Parental Stress Scale). Secondary outcomes include measures of parent health, parent-child relationship, infant development, parent-child activities, and network. Interviewers and data analysts were blind to allocation status. Multiple linear-regression analyses were used for evaluating the effects of the intervention.
resultsThere were no intervention effects on the primary outcomes. Only one effect was detected for secondary outcomes, intervention mothers reported a significantly smaller network than control mothers (β = -0.15 [-1.85,-0.28]). When examining the lowest-functioning mothers in moderator analyses, we found that intervention mothers reported significantly higher parent stress (β = 5.33 [0.27,10.38]), lower parenting confidence (β = -2.37 [-4.45,-0.29]), and worse mental health than control mothers (β = -18.62 [-32.40,-4.84]). In contrast, the highest functioning intervention mothers reported significantly lower parent stress post-intervention (β = -6.11 [-11.07,-1.14]).
conclusionOverall, we found no effects of the IYPB as a universal intervention for parents with infants. The intervention was developed to be used with groups of low functioning families and may need to be adapted to be effective with universal parent groups. The differential outcomes for the lowest and highest functioning families suggest that future research should evaluate the effects of delivering the IYPB intervention to groups of parents who have similar experiences with parenting and mental health.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT01931917.
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