Healthy Digital Habits in Parents of Infants

项目总结 健康的亲子互动对儿童的福祉和发展至关重要。在婴儿期，父母 敏感度(例如，响应性)与父母-婴儿依恋安全和情绪共同调节有关， 随着时间的推移，这为心理健康、学习成绩和人际关系质量奠定了基础。 因此，促进高质量的亲婴互动具有改善儿童健康的潜力 他们生活中的习惯。随着父母将智能手机集成到 他们的生活。绝大多数成年人拥有智能手机，许多人报告说，在他们的家人在场的情况下使用手机 儿童(例如，在玩耍时间、用餐时间、睡觉时间)。此外，父母使用手机的情况也出现了负面影响 与亲子互动和反应能力有关；电话使用也可能间接与 父母的反应通过影响父母的睡眠、情绪和压力。随着父母电话的普及 使用和潜在地使用这种电话来影响父母养育、亲子关系以及婴幼儿健康 和福祉，需要干预措施，以促进父母健康的数字习惯。拟议的研究将 提供必要的信息，以了解婴儿父母的电话使用情况和父母的观点 关于培养更健康的数字习惯的战略。这将支持数据和家长知情的发展 制订方案，协助婴儿的父母，以促进对婴儿的健康照料。这将是 通过对250名婴儿父母的纵向、混合方法研究完成。该研究将包括 三波：第一波父母完成基线调查，然后连续8天每晚 调查(同时还通过应用程序跟踪他们的手机使用情况)；第二波，父母完成后续调查 和一个完成访谈的子样本；以及第三波，我们在其中开发编程，然后是 家长们参加焦点小组，就节目提供反馈。具体目标包括：(目标1)(A) 使用基于移动设备的侦听来识别父母电话使用的配置文件，以及(B)检查关联 与父母的心理健康有关；(目标2)检查父母对(A)他们使用手机，(B)潜在影响的看法 (C)养成更健康的数字习惯的战略和障碍；(目标3) 为健康电话上的婴儿家长开发可行的、家长可接受的社区规划 习惯，根据目标1和目标2中获得的信息。我们以婴儿家庭为目标，因为需要 从小养成健康的习惯。最终，我们将使用这项研究的结果来支持未来的试验 该计划及其在培养父母更健康的手机习惯和儿童健康习惯方面的有效性。如果 如果成功，这项研究将导致一个将在社区中实施的计划，该计划具有 有潜力建立更健康的亲子关系和更健康的儿童发展。

PROJECT SUMMARY Healthy parent-child interactions are critical for children’s well-being and development. In infancy, parent sensitivity (e.g., responsiveness) is linked to parent-infant attachment security and emotional co-regulation, which lay the foundation for mental health, academic performance, and relationship quality over time. Therefore, promoting high-quality parent-infant interactions has the potential to improve children’s healthy habits across their life. The caregiving environment has changed as parents have integrated smartphones into their lives. The vast majority of adults own a smartphone, and many report device use in the presence of their children (e.g., during playtime, mealtime, bedtime). Additionally, parent phone use has been negatively associated with parent-child interactions and responsiveness; phone use is likely also indirectly associated with parent responsiveness via impacts on parent sleep, mood, and stress. With the prevalence of parent phone use and potential for this phone use to impact parenting, parent-child relationships, and infant and child health and well-being, interventions are needed to promote healthy digital habits in parents. The proposed study will provide the information necessary to understand the phone use of parents of infants and parent perspectives on strategies to develop healthier digital habits. This will support the development of data- and parent-informed programming to assist parents of infants in order to foster healthy caregiving for infants. This will be accomplished through a longitudinal, mixed method study of 250 parents of infants. The study will consist of three waves: Wave 1 where parents complete a baseline survey and then 8 consecutive days of nightly surveys (while their phone use is also tracked via an app); Wave 2 where parents complete a follow-up survey and a subsample complete interviews; and Wave 3 where we develop programming and then a subsample of parents participate in focus groups to provide feedback on the programming. Specific aims include: (Aim 1) (a) To identify profiles of parent phone use using mobile device-based sensing and (b) to examine associations with parent mental health; (Aim 2) to examine parents’ perceptions of (a) their phone use, (b) potential impacts on themselves and their infant, and (c) strategies for and barriers to developing healthier digital habits; (Aim 3) to develop feasible and parent-accepted community programming for parents of infants on healthy phone habits, based on the information obtained in Aims 1 and 2. We target families of infants due to the need to begin healthy habits early in life. Ultimately, we will use the results from this research to support future trials of the program and its effectiveness at creating healthier phone habits in parents and healthy habits in children. If successful, this research will lead to a program that will be implemented in the community, which has the potential to build healthier parent-child relationships and healthier child development.