Attitudes Behavior and Practices of Mothering Among an Online Panel

Subjects are users on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform. MTurk users will be asked to complete a screening survey about family structure. The purpose of the screening survey is to identify MTurk users who are biological mothers of children aged 1.5 to 6 years old, and to collect survey information on how mothers interact with their children, with the aim of better understanding family relationships.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Parent-Child Relations; Parenting; Relation, Family; Tantrum
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Online Survey completion

Detailed Description

This is a feasibility study that aims to identify a panel of biological mothers of children aged 1.5 to 6 years old from an online pool of participants on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk; www.mturk.com). MTurk is a novel method to recruit participants from online behavioral studies. Although MTurk workers are anonymous, demographic surveys from previous studies conducted on the web platform indicate that the majority of MTurk users are females living in the U.S. The participant pool may be of scientific interest in pursuing studies that investigate patterns of behaviors and other information pertaining to mothers. A panel of mothers that fit screening criteria may be helpful for future planned studies on attitudes, behavior, and practices surrounding mothering. The MTurk mothers panel will be eligible to participate in future studies involving knowledge, attitudes, and practices of their motherhood and of emotional connection with their children.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 374

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10032
      • Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 55 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Biological mothers of children between ages 0-5 living in the US who are users of Amazon's mTurk platform

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Biological mothers of children between ages 1.5-6 living in the US

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not having reliable internet access

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Correlations between survey items	Descriptive statistics and correlations will be generated to show the basic participant characteristics captured during the data collection and whether the survey items correlate with each other. Survey items include the Parental Burnout Assessment, the Temper Loss Scale, and two surveys created by Dr. Welch at the Nurture Science Program: the Welch Emotional Connection Screen-Parent Report, as well as a tantrum questionnaire.	Day 1

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Columbia University
• Collaborators: Einhorn Family Charitable Trust
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Martha G. Welch, MD, Columbia University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 15, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): September 5, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): September 5, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 29, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 29, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): May 4, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): February 16, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 14, 2023
• Last Verified: February 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: MTurk
• Other Study ID Numbers: AAAR8405

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No