Attitudes Behavior and Practices of Mothering Among an Online Panel

Parenting Clinical Trial

Official title:

Attitudes Behavior and Practices of Mothering Among an Online Panel

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04871659
• Other study ID #: AAAR8405
• Status: Completed
• Start date: March 15, 2021
• Est. completion date: September 5, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: February 2023
• Source: Columbia University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Subjects are users on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform. MTurk users will be asked to complete a screening survey about family structure. The purpose of the screening survey is to identify MTurk users who are biological mothers of children aged 1.5 to 6 years old, and to collect survey information on how mothers interact with their children, with the aim of better understanding family relationships.

Description:

This is a feasibility study that aims to identify a panel of biological mothers of children aged 1.5 to 6 years old from an online pool of participants on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk; www.mturk.com). MTurk is a novel method to recruit participants from online behavioral studies. Although MTurk workers are anonymous, demographic surveys from previous studies conducted on the web platform indicate that the majority of MTurk users are females living in the U.S. The participant pool may be of scientific interest in pursuing studies that investigate patterns of behaviors and other information pertaining to mothers. A panel of mothers that fit screening criteria may be helpful for future planned studies on attitudes, behavior, and practices surrounding mothering. The MTurk mothers panel will be eligible to participate in future studies involving knowledge, attitudes, and practices of their motherhood and of emotional connection with their children.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 374
• Est. completion date: September 5, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: September 5, 2021
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 55 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Biological mothers of children between ages 1.5-6 living in the US

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not having reliable internet access

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Parent-Child Relations
• Parenting
• Relation, Family

Intervention

Other:
• Online Survey completion
Eligible participants will complete surveys electronically via Amazon's mTurk platform

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Columbia University Irving Medical Center	New York	New York

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Columbia University	Einhorn Family Charitable Trust

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Correlations between survey items	Descriptive statistics and correlations will be generated to show the basic participant characteristics captured during the data collection and whether the survey items correlate with each other. Survey items include the Parental Burnout Assessment, the Temper Loss Scale, and two surveys created by Dr. Welch at the Nurture Science Program: the Welch Emotional Connection Screen-Parent Report, as well as a tantrum questionnaire.	Day 1