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Maternal Adversity, Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment

Mental Health Issue (E.G., Depression, Psychosis, Personality Disorder, Substance Abuse) · Infant Development · Infant Behavior

Enrolled (actual)
630
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
May 2020
Primary outcome: Primary: Child's Cognitive Development Measured Using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development II. — 524; 508; 458; 422 Participants

Study Design & Population

Study type
Observational
Phase
N/A
Interventions
Age
Pediatric · 0+ yrs
Sex
All
Sponsor
Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Primary completion
Dec 2017

Outcome Measures

OutcomeResultp-value
PRIMARY
Child's Cognitive Development Measured Using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development II.
524; 508; 458; 422
PRIMARY
Child Temperament Evaluated Using the Infant Behaviour Questionnaire.
387; 475
PRIMARY
Changes in Child Temperament Evaluated Using the Early Childhood Behaviour Questionnaire.
433; 420
PRIMARY
Changes in Socio-emotional Development Measured Using the Infant Toddler Socio-emotional Assessment Questionnaire.
485; 471
PRIMARY
Changes in Child's Behaviour Problems Measured With the Child Behaviour Checklist.
366; 310
PRIMARY
Changes in Child's School Readiness Measured With the School Readiness Test Battery.
366; 322
PRIMARY
Evaluation or Child's Cognitive Development Using the Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment.
358
PRIMARY
Evaluation of Child's Cognitive Development Using the Weschler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence.
355
PRIMARY
Changes in Child's Hyperactivity Problems Measured With the Conner's.
323; 272
PRIMARY
Child's Fears Assessed With the Koala Fear Questionnaire.
353
PRIMARY
Changes in Child's Emotional and Behaviour Problems Measured With the Strength and Difficulty Questionnaire.
323; 271
PRIMARY
Child's Behavioural Inhibition and Behavioural Activation Were Measured Using the Behavioural Inhibition System (BIS) and the Behavioural Approach System (BAS)
303
PRIMARY
Child's Mental Health Was Evaluated Using the Dominic Questionnaire.
279
PRIMARY
The Child's Attributional Style Was Evaluated With the Child Attributional Style Interview.
275
PRIMARY
Changes in Child's Feeding Behaviour Was Measured With the Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire.
395; 305
PRIMARY
Child's Executive Functioning Measured With the Behavior Rating of Executive Function.
307
PRIMARY
Sensitivity to Punishment & Sensitivity to Reward in Children Will be Evaluated Using the Child Version of the Sensitivity to Punishment & Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire.
308
SECONDARY
Changes in Mother's Depression Symptoms Measured With the Beck Depression Inventory.
318; 261
SECONDARY
Changes in Mother's Depression Symptoms Measured With the Center for Epidemiological Studies, Depression Scale.
533; 554; 518; 471; 437; 391
SECONDARY
Changes in Mother's Depression Symptoms Were Measured With the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.
481
SECONDARY
Changes in Mother's Anxiety Symptoms Were Measured Using the Speilberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory.
410; 471; 338
SECONDARY
Mother's Retrospective Assessment of Parental Educational Style Using the Parental Bonding Inventory.
475
SECONDARY
Changes in Mother's Sensitivity Was Evaluated Using the Maternal Behaviour Q Sort (Short Version) and the Ainsworth Scales.
99
SECONDARY
Mother's Early Life Abuse and Neglect Were Evaluated Using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.
429
SECONDARY
Mother's Eating Behaviours Were Evaluated Using the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire.
350
SECONDARY
Mother's Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Were Measured Using the Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire.
350
SECONDARY
Parenting Style Assessed Using the Parental Authority Questionnaire.
323
SECONDARY
Family Functioning Assessed Using the Family Assessment Device Questionnaire.
307

Summary

Maternal Adversity Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment (MAVAN) project is a prospective community-based, pregnancy and birth cohort of Canadian mother-child dyads. The main objective of MAVAN project is to examine the pre- and postnatal influences, and their interaction, in determining individual differences in children development. The MAVAN project is designed to examine the consequences of fetal adversity as a function of the quality of the postnatal environment, focusing on mother-infant interactions.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • Pregnant women recruited when they attending antenatal care clinics at the time of routine ultrasound or through advertisements at hospitals (usually at 13 to 20 weeks' gestation). Women were included in the study if they were 18 years of age or older, and fluent in either English or French. Only babies born at 37 weeks or later and above 2000 g were included in the MAVAN cohort.

Exclusion Criteria

  • Exclusion criteria included serious obstetric complications during the pregnancy or delivery of the child, extremely low birth weight, prematurity (less than 37 weeks of gestation), or any congenital diseases.
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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03434457). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.

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