Scan to bond: could QR codes boost confidence in new moms?
NCT ID NCT07763041
First seen Aug 13, 2026 · Last updated Aug 14, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial tests whether a special infant care training program, supported by QR codes and a mobile app, can help first-time mothers feel more confident and attached to their babies after a NICU stay. Mothers in the intervention group receive face-to-face training, a guide with QR codes linking to videos, and app access, while others get standard care. The study measures maternal confidence, attachment, and infant health at discharge and at one and three months after.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- QR code-supported infant care education, including face-to-face training, a printed guide with QR codes to videos, and a mobile app
- What this could lead to
- If effective, this approach could improve maternal confidence and attachment, and potentially enhance infant health outcomes after NICU discharge.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage trial, and results may not apply broadly. The intervention depends on digital literacy and smartphone access, which could limit its use.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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84 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jun 2025
- Finished
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Feb 2026
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Female participants only
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Primiparous mothers with a singleton birth, * Aged 18 years or older, * Able to read and communicate in Turkish, * Owning a smartphone with internet access and having sufficient digital literacy to use QR code applications, * No diagnosed psychiatric disorder, * Mothers whose infants had been hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit for at least one month, * Willing to participate and providing written informed consent, * Infants with a gestational age of ≥34 weeks, * Infants without life-threatening congenital, neurological, gastrointestinal, or genetic disorders requiring surgical intervention or expected to affect long-term prognosis. Exclusion Criteria: * Mothers who did not continue in the post-discharge follow-up period, * Participants whose mother or infant died (exitus) during the study period.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Lokman Hekim University Ankara Hospital
Ankara, Turkey (Türkiye)