Prenatal attachment interventions: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Amidst a rapidly growing worldwide literature on non-invasive interventions to optimize parent-child relationships prenatally, the effectiveness of prenatal attachment intervention remains uncertain due to methodologic restrictions of prior systematic reviews. The current systematic review was aimed at capturing the diversity of study designs, intervention targets and methods employed reflective of this burgeoning literature. We then employed meta-regression to evaluate the impact of expected heterogeneity on estimated intervention effects.

Methods

We searched MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, PsychINFO, Trip database, and Google Scholar for empirical prenatal attachment intervention studies published through August 11, 2025, with titles and abstracts written in English. Artic

SUBMITTER: Cote JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12702810 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature