The Effect of the Mobile Application Developed for Home Care of Preterm

Education Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of the Mobile Application Developed for Home Care of the Premature Baby on the Mother's Baby Care Skills, Self-efficacy and Mother-infant Bonding

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05438056
• Other study ID #: AnkaraU06GKY
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 16, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: June 2022
• Source: Ankara University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

mobile application will be developed to support the post-discharge home care of mothers of premature babies. With the developed mobile application, the effect of the education given to the mothers on the knowledge and skills of infant care, mother-infant attachment, and the mother's self-efficacy will be evaluated.

Description:

This research aims to examine the effect of the mobile application developed for the home care of the babies of the mothers of premature babies on their baby care knowledge and skills, mother-infant attachment and mother self-efficacy. A mobile application will be developed to support mothers who care for their premature babies at home after discharge. The application will be installed on the phones of mothers whose babies are discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit. After the babies are discharged, mothers will be trained at home with a mobile application. Maternal self-efficacy and mother-infant supplementation will be measured when infants admitted the NICU and one month after discharge the NICU.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 48
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: August 30, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

For mothers;

• Being over the age of 18,

• Having a premature baby

• At least primary school graduate,

• Smart mobile app can be installed have a phone,

• Being able to understand and speak Turkish,

• Residing in Ankara

For babies;

• 32-37 weeks of gestation of the baby (middle and borderline premature)

• Baby in neonatal intensive care unit to stay

• Not having undergone a surgical operation,

• Absence of physical anomalies

Exclusion Criteria:

For Mothers;

• Diagnosed with postpartum depression

• unwillingness to participate in the study

For babies;

• Very small preterm (born below 28 weeks of gestation) and small preterm (between 28 and 31 weeks of gestation)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Education
• Home Care
• Mobile Application
• Premature
• Premature Birth

Intervention

Other:
• education with mobile application
providing training to mothers of premature babies with a mobile application

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ankara University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	baby care knowledge and skills form	Form that measuring baby care knowledge and skills. The unabridged name of the form is baby care knowledge and skills form. Since the form created by the researcher has not been finalized, the lowest and highest scores to be obtained from the form are not certain. A high score indicates a high level of knowledge and skill of the mother.	up to 14 months
Primary	parent self-efficacy scale	scale that measures mother's self-efficacy for baby care.The unabridged name of the scale is parent self-efficacy scale. The lowest score obtained from the scale is 18, the highest score is 90. low score indicates high self-efficacy	up to 10 months
Primary	parent self-efficacy scale	scale that measures mother's self-efficacy for baby care.The unabridged name of the scale is parent self-efficacy scale. The lowest score obtained from the scale is 18, the highest score is 90. low score indicates high self-efficacy.	up to 14 months
Secondary	maternal attachment scale	scale that measuring mother-infant attachment. The unabridged name of the scale is maternal attachment scale. The lowest score obtained from the scale is 26, the highest score is 104. A high score indicates high maternal attachment.	up to 10 months
Secondary	maternal attachment scale	scale that measuring mother-infant attachment. The unabridged name of the scale is maternal attachment scale. The lowest score obtained from the scale is 26, the highest score is 104. A high score indicates high maternal attachment.	up to 14 months