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N/A Completed N=630

Maternal Adversity, Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment

Mental Health Issue (E.G., Depression, Psychosis, Personality Disorder, Substance Abuse) · Infant Development · Infant Behavior
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03434457 ↗
Enrolled (actual)
630
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
May 2020
Primary outcomePrimary: Child's Cognitive Development Measured Using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development II. — 524; 508; 458; 422 Participants

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.

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 —

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. Informational only — not medical advice.

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