ArticleBMC pediatrics2019
Sleep SAAF: a responsive parenting intervention to prevent excessive weight gain and obesity among African American infants.
Article in BMC pediatrics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Sleep-Safe: A Strong African American Families Study
First Thousand Days: Prevention of Early Life Obesity in Latino Infants and Toddlers
Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention Targeting Mothers to Increase Practice of Responsive Feeding and Maintain Healthy Weight in Infants Minors
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Identifying behavior change techniques (BCTs) in responsive feeding interventions to prevent childhood obesity-A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- Responsive parenting and Black mothers' postpartum sleep: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2024Trial
- Effects of a Responsive Parenting Intervention Among Black Families on Infant Sleep: A Secondary Analysis of the Sleep SAAF Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Sleep SAAF responsive parenting intervention improves mothers' feeding practices: a randomized controlled trial among African American mother-infant dyads.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Trial
- Patterns and Predictors of Breast Milk Feeding from Birth to Age 4 Months among Primiparous African American Mother-Infant Dyads.Nutrients · 2022Trial
- Sleep-wake patterns in newborns are associated with infant rapid weight gain and incident adiposity in toddlerhood.Pediatric obesity · 2021Trial
- Sleep SAAF Responsive Parenting Intervention for Black Mothers Impacts Response to Infant Crying: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Academic pediatricsTrial
- THRIVE 2.0: A randomized-controlled trial of an obesity prevention intervention designed for infants in pediatric primary care.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2025Article
- Patterns and predictors of change in relationship status among Black mothers over 16 weeks postpartum.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2024Article
- Brief Parent-Child Substance Use Education Intervention for Black Families in Urban Cities in New Jersey: Protocol for a Formative Study Design.JMIR research protocols · 2024Article
- The impact of swaddling upon breastfeeding: A critical review.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2023Review
- The care of infants with rapid weight gain: Should we be doing more?Journal of paediatrics and child health · 2022Article
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- Increased risk for excessive weight gain in infants who sleep less than 12 hours per 24 hours.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2021Article
- Effects of Breastfeeding, Formula Feeding, and Complementary Feeding on Rapid Weight Gain in the First Year of Life.Academic pediatrics · 2021Article
- Positive parenting approaches and their association with child eating and weight: A narrative review from infancy to adolescence.Pediatric obesity · 2020Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundResponsive parenting interventions that shape parenting behaviors in the areas of sleep and soothing, appropriate and responsive feeding, and routines represent a promising approach to early obesity prevention and have demonstrated effectiveness in our previous trials. However, this approach has yet to be applied to the populations most at-risk for the development of early obesity, including African Americans. The Sleep SAAF (Strong African American Families) study is a two-arm randomized controlled clinical trial evaluating whether a responsive parenting intervention focused on promoting infant sleeping and self-soothing can prevent rapid weight gain during the first 16 weeks postpartum among first-born African American infants. The responsive parenting intervention is compared to a child safety control intervention.
methodsThree hundred first-time African American mothers and their full-term infants will be enrolled from one mother/baby nursery. Following initial screening and consent in the hospital, mothers and infants are visited at home by Community Research Associates for data collection visits at 1 week, 8 weeks, and 16 weeks postpartum and for intervention visits at 3 weeks and 8 weeks postpartum. The primary study outcome is a between-group comparison of infant conditional weight gain (CWG) scores from 3 weeks to 16 weeks; additional weight-related outcomes include differences in change in infants' weight for age over time and differences in infants' weight outcomes at age 16 weeks. Several other outcomes reflecting infant and maternal responses to intervention (e.g., sleeping, soothing, feeding, maternal self-efficacy, maternal depressive symptoms) are also assessed. DISCUSSION: The Sleep SAAF trial can inform efforts to prevent rapid weight gain and reduce risk for obesity early in the lifespan among African Americans.
trial registrationNCT03505203 . Registered April 3, 2018 in clinicaltrials.gov .
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