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ArticlePilot and feasibility studies2021

Potential efficacy of parent-infant psychotherapy with mothers and their infants from a high-risk population: a randomized controlled pilot trial.

J Mattheß, M Eckert, O Becker, C Ludwig-Körner, L Kuchinke

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Article in Pilot and feasibility studies, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

J MattheßInternational Psychoanalytic University, Stromstr. 3b, 10555, Berlin, Germany. janna.matthess@ipu-berlin.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9111-9530
M EckertInternational Psychoanalytic University, Stromstr. 3b, 10555, Berlin, Germany.
O BeckerInternational Psychoanalytic University, Stromstr. 3b, 10555, Berlin, Germany.
C Ludwig-KörnerInternational Psychoanalytic University, Stromstr. 3b, 10555, Berlin, Germany.
L KuchinkeInternational Psychoanalytic University, Stromstr. 3b, 10555, Berlin, Germany.
International Psychoanalytic University Berlin · DE

Funding

Heidehof Stiftung 59068.03.1/1.17International Psychoanalytical Association CERP33
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPsychotherapy of mother-child dyads is an intervention which was developed to prevent maltreatment and negative children's development. There is a lack of good-quality research investigating psychotherapeutic interventions and social care for mothers at high-risk living in Mother-Child Facilities in Germany. The present randomized controlled pilot trial (RCT) aimed to evaluate the need for parent-infant psychotherapy (PIP) and to explore its impact on the mother-infant relationship. Primary feasibility objectives were recruitment and attrition, with potential efficacy defined as the secondary feasibility objective.

methodsThis pilot RCT focused on (young) mothers with cumulative risk factors and their infants under 7 months of age living in Mother-Child Facilities. N=32 mother-child dyads were randomly allocated to PIP or Care as usual (CAU). Outcomes were assessed at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months of intervention. The primary potential efficacy outcome was maternal sensitivity. Secondary outcomes were maternal mental health problems, reflective functioning, parenting stress, personality organization, infant's development, and attachment.

resultsAt baseline, all mothers showed low levels of emotional availability, but results revealed improvements in sensitivity, mental health problems, stress, and depressive symptomatology favoring PIP after 6 months. Positive developments in maternal sensitivity, a healthy aspect of mother-child interaction, were only found in the PIP group. Overall attrition was high at 6 months. Some evidence of fewer depressive symptoms and lower maternal distress after 6 months of PIP-intervention exists that did not reach significance.

conclusionFindings revealed improvements in the mother's well-being for both groups, but PIP had a higher impact on the mother-child dyad. In sum, there is some evidence that PIP may represent an effective intervention offer besides the social and pedagogical support in these facilities, but further research is demanded.

trial registrationDRKS00022485 (retrospectively registered).

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AttachmentHigh-risk populationMaternal mental health problemsMaternal sensitivityMother-Child FacilitiesParent-infant psychotherapyYoung motherhood

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