a new mother-child play activity program to decrease parenting stress and improve child cognitive abilities a cluster randomized controlled trial新的母子玩活动程序减少父母压力和提高儿童的认知能力集群随机对照试验.pdfVIP

A New Mother-Child Play Activity Program to Decrease Parenting Stress and Improve Child Cognitive Abilities: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial 1,2 3 4 4 4 Yoshiyuki Tachibana *, Ai Fukushima , Hitomi Saito , Satoshi Yoneyama , Kazuo Ushida , Susumu Yoneyama4, Ryuta Kawashima2,3 1 Division of Maternal-Child Psychiatry, Department of Psychosocial Medicine, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan, 2 Department of Applied Brain Science, Smart Aging International Research Center, IDAC, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 3 Department of Functional Brain Imaging, IDAC, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 4 Wakakusa Kindergarten, Sendai, Japan Abstract Background: We propose a new play activity intervention program for mothers and children. Our interdisciplinary program integrates four fields of child-related sciences: neuroscience, preschool pedagogy, developmental psychology, and child and maternal psychiatry. To determine the effect of this intervention on child and mother psychosocial problems related to parenting stress and on the children’s cognitive abilities, we performed a cluster randomized controlled trial. Methodology/Principal Findings: Participants were 238 pairs of mothers and typically developing preschool children (ages 4–6 years old) from Wakakusa kindergarten in Japan. The pairs were asked to play at home for about 10 min a day, 5 days a week for 3 months. Participants were randomly assigned to the intervention or control group by class unit. The Parenting Stress Index (PSI) (for mothers), the Goodenough Draw-a-Man intelligence test (DAM), and the new S-S intelligence test (NS- SIT) (for children) were administered prior to and 3 months after the intervention period. Pre–post changes in test scores