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Mindful With Your Baby for Mothers of Infants With (Parental) Stress in a Non-clinical Setting: A Wait-list Controlled Pilot Trial
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Mindful with your Baby program for Stress Reduction. Completed, enrolled 17 participants.
Detailed Summary
In this pilot waitlist-controlled trial, 17 mothers with infants (2-15 months) admitted themselves for a Mindful with your Baby (MwyB) training in a non-clinical setting because of (parental) stress. MwyB was offered in groups of three to six dyads and consisted of eight 2-hour sessions. Participants completed questionnaires on symptoms of parental stress, stress, depression, anxiety, mindfulness and self-compassion at 8-week waitlist, pretest, posttest and 8-week follow-up.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The training Mindful with your baby consists of eight weekly 2-h sessions, plus a follow-up session 8 weeks later. The first and the fifth sessions are with the mothers only. The rest of the sessions are with both mothers and babies present. The sessions are finished by explaining the new home practices. Home practice consists of reading handouts about mindfulness and mindful parenting for mothers with a baby, formal and informal meditation practice.