Prenatal Intervention of Maternal Stress - Breastfeeding & Infant Neurodevelopment

Launched by NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS · Mar 7, 2025

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METHODOLOGY Researchers will compare three groups of pregnant women who will receive three different types of information during pregnancy.

* The first group, or intervention group (IG), will be trained in 8-10 structured individual sessions of relaxation techniques that they will apply throughout the pregnancy, along with structured information about breastfeeding.
* The second group, or Active Control group (ACG), will receive 8 individual structured educational courses about breastfeeding, childbirth and the needs of the newborn, and
* The third group, or Control Group (CG), will receiv...

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Primiparous pregnant women
• • 14-20 weeks of Gestational Age
• • Intention to give birth at the specific maternity hospital
• • Greek women or foreigners who know the Greek language very well
• • Place of residence: Greece
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Use of benzodiazepines, major neuroleptics, or psychostimulant medications.
• • Pregnant women diagnosed with incurable physical or mental diseases.
• • Pregnant women carrying fetuses or newborns with major congenital anomalies or criteria for perinatal asphyxia.
• • Pregnant women with stillbirths or newborns who do not survive.
• • All mothers and their newborns born before 34 weeks of gestation or requiring hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for more than 7 days.