The Pittsburgh Girls Study
RISE
The purpose of the RISE study is to investigate how daily stressful events and positive experiences affect psychological wellbeing and stress physiology during pregnancy. This study will also examine how daily experiences during pregnancy relate to infants’ emotions and physiology after birth. The goal of the RISE study is to provide information about the types of daily positive experiences during pregnancy that have the greatest impact on women’s daily regulation of stress during pregnancy and their infants’ emotion regulation outcomes after birth. The long-term goal of these efforts is to help inform early prevention efforts that support emotional health and wellbeing across the pregnancy and postpartum periods for women and their children.
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Participants of the PGS-ECHO study are being invited to participate in the RISE study. During their pregnancy, participants will answer questions about their emotions and daily life experiences for 10-days using a study smartphone and wear a sensor during this time period to track their heart rate. After the 10-day period, participants will come back to the lab to return the study phone and sensor and answer some questions about their experience with the study. When participants return with their infants for their scheduled 6-month PGS-ECHO visit, we will also collect measures of heart rate from mothers and their infants for the RISE study. We expect to have about 95 participants from the PGS-ECHO participate in the RISE study who are between the ages of 25 and 34 years.
The RISE study is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (K01 MH123505).
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