Mellow Babies: A Randomised Feasibility Trial of an Intervention to Improve the Quality of Parent-Infant Interactions and Parental Mental Wellbeing.

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Article in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02277301 (Mellow Babies - a Pilot Waiting List Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02277301 nacompletednot on this map

Mellow Babies - a Pilot Waiting List Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of AberdeenRan2014 to 2016Enrolled45ConditionsMothers Who Have Been Referred for Parenting SupportArmsMellow Babies

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

Effectiveness of Mellow Parenting on parental mental health and parenting outcomes on a vulnerable parent sample in Moldova.PloS one · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lucy ThompsonInstitute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7461-3262

Philip WilsonInstitute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4123-8248

Funding

University of Aberdeen HH016 RGB4378

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mellow Babies aims to improve mothers' mental wellbeing and the quality of their interactions with their baby. The feasibility of a definitive trial of Mellow Babies was assessed using a waiting-list randomised pilot trial (Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT02277301). Mothers with substantial health/social care needs and a child aged <13 months were randomly allocated either to a 14-week Mellow Babies programme or to receive usual care whilst on a waiting list for the intervention. Rates of recruitment and retention as well as participants' views of their experience in this study were recorded. Outcomes were parenting behaviour, assessed by the blind-rated Mellow Parenting Observation System (primary) and self-report maternal wellbeing pre- and post-intervention/waiting period. We recruited 38 eligible participants: 36 (95%; 18 intervention, 18 control) completed baseline measures, and 28 (74%; 15 intervention, 13 control) provided post-intervention data. Two practitioners took part in feedback interviews. Intervention participants had significantly more positive interactions with their babies at post-intervention compared to those in the control group (

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feasibility trialparent–child interactionparent supportperinatal mental health

Identifiers

PMID38790505

DOI10.3390/children11050510

PMCPMC11119448

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