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Laura A Outhwaite1

  • 1Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

Frontiers in Psychology
|January 30, 2023
PubMed

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A new parenting app significantly boosted parental self-efficacy in parents of infants aged 0-6 months. Higher app usage correlated with greater self-efficacy, showing potential for early childhood interventions.

Area of Science:

  • Child Development
  • Parenting Interventions
  • Digital Health

Background:

  • Parental self-efficacy is crucial for effective parent-child interactions and early intervention.
  • Existing interventions often lack scalable, accessible tools for parents of young children.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To pilot test a novel parenting application designed to enhance parental self-efficacy.
  • To evaluate the efficacy of a parenting app in improving self-efficacy among parents of infants (0-6 months).

Main Methods:

  • A pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) involving 79 parents of infants aged 0-6 months in the UK.
  • Intervention group used a parenting app with daily developmental activities; control group received standard care.
  • Parental self-efficacy was measured pre- and post-intervention, controlling for baseline scores.

Main Results:

  • Parents using the app demonstrated significantly higher parental self-efficacy compared to the control group after 4 weeks.
  • Frequency of app usage positively correlated with improvements in parental self-efficacy.
  • The findings support the app's potential to positively impact parental confidence.

Conclusions:

  • Parenting applications represent a viable and effective tool for enhancing parental self-efficacy in early childhood.
  • This study provides proof of concept for digital interventions in supporting early parenting.
  • Future research should explore long-term effects and broader generalizability.

Keywords:
early child developmentfirst 1,000 daysparental self-efficacyparenting apprandomized control trial

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