Evaluating the Efficacy of ABC for High-Risk Parent and Infants

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Attachment Disorders

In brief

Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) is a manualized 10-session intervention delivered in families' homes or other places of residence. By helping parents of infants provide nurturance when their children are in distress, follow their children's lead, and behave in non-frightening ways, the ABC intervention has been previously found to enhance children's attachment quality and children's ability to regulate behavior, physiology, and emotions. The purpose of the present study is to examine the effectiveness of ABC in the context of community-based implementation efforts. Outcome assessments will include parent sensitivity, attachment quality, and cortisol regulation. The investigators hypothesize that parents randomly assigned to receive the ABC intervention will show higher levels of sensitivity at follow-up than parents randomly assigned to the waitlist control condition; and children randomly assigned to the ABC intervention will show higher rates of secure attachment and more normative profiles of cortisol than children randomly assigned to the waitlist condition.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02647463

Run by

Stony Brook University

People needed

200

Starts

2016-01-01

Expected to finish

2018-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-04-18

Who can join

Age: 1 and older, up to 2. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Infant between 6 and 20 months old at time of enrollment
• Living with primary caregiver

You may not qualify if…

• Infant will be excluded if he/she has significant medical or developmental problems

Where it is running

• Power of Two — Brooklyn, New York, United States

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