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Strengthening Healthy Emotional Co-regulation of Mothers With PCOS and Obesity and Their Infants
Sponsor: Oulu University Hospital
Summary
It is both timely and important to invest in interventions that can improve healthy emotional co-regulation. It is proposed to evaluate the feasibility and limited efficacy of an adapted, brief, multimodal intervention: ECoFam (Emotional connection and Co-regulation for Families). Evidence from the US suggests intervention effects on maternal and infant outcomes that are large in effect size (i.e., Cohen's d \>0.6 for increasing emotional connection and decreasing maternal depressive symptoms) (21-23). The study results will directly translate evidence into practice and, if found feasible, allow rapid scaling-up. Objectives: 1. Build capacity for implementation of a novel diagnostic screening tool for emotional co-regulation, the uWECS, as part of clinical follow-up for mother-infant dyads with high fibrobesity risk in Finland. 2. Test the feasibility and limited efficacy of the brief, multimodal ECoFam intervention to foster healthy emotional co-regulation between mothers with PCOS and obesity and their infants.
Key Details
Gender
FEMALE
Age Range
Any - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
40
Start Date
2025-04-15
Completion Date
2026-12
Last Updated
2025-08-19
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
ECoFam
Mother-infant dyads randomized into the intervention group receive four personal coaching sessions to facilitate emotional connection via multisensory channels including comfort touch and communication of face-to-face affect during holding time.
Locations (1)
Oulu University Hospital
Oulu, Finland