Healthy Digital Habits in Parents of Infants

项目摘要 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 灵敏度（例如，反应性）与父母-婴儿依恋安全性和情绪共同调节有关， 这为心理健康、学习成绩和关系质量奠定了基础。 因此，促进高质量的亲子互动有可能提高儿童的健康水平。 生活中的习惯。随着父母将智能手机整合到 孩子们当中.绝大多数成年人拥有智能手机，许多人报告在他们面前使用设备。 儿童（例如，在游戏时间、进餐时间、就寝时间）。此外，家长电话的使用一直是负面的， 与亲子互动和反应有关;电话使用也可能间接与 通过对父母睡眠、情绪和压力的影响，对父母的反应。随着家长电话的普及 这种手机的使用及其对养育子女、亲子关系以及婴幼儿健康的影响 和福祉，需要采取干预措施，以促进父母健康的数字习惯。拟定的研究将 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策略。这将有助于发展数据和家长知情的 制定方案，协助婴儿父母，以促进婴儿的健康成长。这将是 通过对250名婴儿父母的纵向混合方法研究完成。本研究将包括 三波：第一波，父母完成基线调查，然后连续8天每晚 调查（同时通过应用程序跟踪他们的手机使用情况）; Wave 2，父母完成后续调查 和一个子样本完成采访;和第三波，我们开发编程，然后是一个子样本， 家长参加焦点小组，就方案提供反馈意见。具体目标包括：（目标1）（a） 使用基于移动的设备的感测来识别父电话使用的简档，以及（B）检查关联 与父母的心理健康;（目的2）检查父母的看法（a）他们的电话使用，（B）潜在的影响 （c）培养更健康的数字习惯的策略和障碍;（目标3） 为使用健康电话的婴儿的父母制定可行的和父母接受的社区计划 根据目标1和2中获得的信息，我们的目标是婴儿家庭，因为需要 在生命的早期就开始健康的习惯。最终，我们将利用这项研究的结果来支持未来的试验， 该计划及其在父母和儿童中创造健康电话习惯的有效性。如果 成功，这项研究将导致一个计划，将在社区实施，其中有 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.