Tests a brief parent-infant program for mothers with PCOS and obesity
Tests a short program helping mothers with PCOS and obesity bond emotionally with infants.
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Registry title: Strengthening Healthy Emotional Co-regulation of Mothers With PCOS and Obesity and Their Infants
Key facts
- Where
- Oulu, FinlandSee the site
Where in Finland
- Oulu University HospitalOulu, FinlandTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Oulu University Hospital
- Trial code
- NCT07129434
- Record updated
- 19 August 2025
- Original description
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.Read full original descriptionShow less
Strengthening Healthy Emotional Co-regulation of Mothers With PCOS and Obesity and Their Infants
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.
Inclusion: Diagnosis of PCOS; Obesity according to BMI; Gave birth at Oulu University Hospital in 2024-25; PEPPI cohort study participation; uWECS emotional connection score <9.0 at pre-test.
Exclusion: Infant death.