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The problem
Intervention: Potential intervention to reduce mothers' fear of negative evaluation during the perinatal period
Who it was tested with: 1,739 pregnant women in Japan (768 with complete longitudinal data), followed from pregnancy to 56 weeks postpartum.
The same group is measured before the intervention and again afterwards, with a baseline and an endline and sometimes a midline. Change is visible, but other causes cannot be ruled out.
"Random intercept cross-lagged panel modeling (RI-CLPM) showed a negative trait-level association between BFNE and PSOC" and "Higher prenatal FNE predicted an increased likelihood that the child would require follow-up or specialist referral at the one-month health check." This longitudinal design tracks maternal psychological factors and child outcomes over time, establishing temporal associations but not proving that reducing fear of negative evaluation would improve child development outcomes.
Study is observational without an intervention tested; findings are based on maternal self-report measures; no objective clinical assessment of child development; causality cannot be established from this design
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
