Trial reportSleep health2019
Consistent use of bedtime parenting strategies mediates the effects of sleep education on child sleep: secondary findings from an early-life randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Sleep health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00892983 (Primary Prevention of Rapid Weight Gain in Early Childhood), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Primary Prevention of Rapid Weight Gain in Early Childhood: a Randomised Controlled Trial
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3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Adverse childhood experiences, sleep problems, low self-control, and adolescent delinquency: A longitudinal serial mediation analysis.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Infant sleep as a topic in healthcare guidance of parents, prenatally and the first 6 months after birth: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveUsing data from a randomized controlled trial, this study investigated whether parent's consistent use of recommended bedtime strategies with infants was a mediating mechanism for improved child sleep.
methodsExpectant mothers were allocated to 4 groups: usual care (Control); additional support regarding Food, (physical) Activity, and Breastfeeding (FAB); advice on infant sleep through 1 group educational session during the antenatal period and 1 home visit when the child was 3 weeks of age (Sleep), or both FAB and Sleep interventions (Combination). An index relating to parent's consistent use of strategies to encourage infant sleep self-settling was developed from data collected when infants were 4 and 6 months of age. Child sleep self-control was measured at 3.5 years of age through a behavior rating scale. Child overnight sleep duration was measured using accelerometers at 1, 2, 3.5, and 5 years of age. Analyses examined whether any association between intervention group and child sleep self-control or sleep duration was mediated by consistent use of bedtime strategies at 4 and 6 months.
resultsCompared to Controls, Sleep group parents had significantly higher odds of using more intervention strategies consistently (1.63; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.14-2.33), as did Combination group parents (1.45; 95% CI 1.01-2.07). Consistent strategy use was significantly associated with a decrease in child bedtime behavioral difficulties (0.97; 95% CI 0.95-0.98) and increased sleep duration (0.152; SE = 0.017). Sleep group assignment reduced child sleep self-control difficulties and improved sleep duration indirectly via parent's consistent use of bedtime strategies. DISCUSSION: Consistent use of appropriate bedtime strategies in infancy is an important factor that influences child sleep self-control in later development.
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