ArticleJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2020
Effect of a behavioral-educational sleep intervention for first-time mothers and their infants: pilot of a controlled trial.
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- Insomnia evaluation and treatment during peripartum: a joint position paper from the European Insomnia Network task force "Sleep and Women," the Italian Marcè Society and international experts task force for perinatal mental health.Archives of women's mental health · 2022Pooled it
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- Effect of Nursing Behavioral Intervention on Subjective Sleep Quality Among Postpartum Women: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Improving children's sleep habits using an interactive smartphone app: Effect on children's sleep and caregivers' stress.Sleep medicine: X · 2025Article
- Proposed domains of postpartum sleep: a concept elicitation study using qualitative interviews.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Maturation of infant sleep during the first 6 months of life: a mini-scoping review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- Evaluating Educational Patterns and Methods in Infant Sleep Care: Trends, Effectiveness, and Impact in Home Settings-A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Impact of a structured sleep education program on mothers' knowledge and attitudes toward infant sleeping.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Managing Pregnancy and Nursing Affecting African American Women with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Clinical Outcomes and Parenthood.Medical research archives · 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
- Associations of sleep-related behaviors and the sleep environment at infant age one month with sleep patterns in infants five months later.Sleep medicine · 2022Article
- Moe Kura: a longitudinal study of mother and child sleep and well-being in Aotearoa New Zealand.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2022Article
- Sleep education improves knowledge but not sleep quality among medical students.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
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objectivesThis study tested the acceptability and efficacy of a perinatally delivered behavioral-educational sleep intervention.
methodsParticipants were 40 primiparous women assigned in late pregnancy to either an intervention (n = 20) or control (n = 20) group. The sleep intervention group (SIG) received prenatal anticipatory education and guidance regarding their own and their infant's sleep during the first 3 months postpartum. This was reinforced during phone calls within the first 6 weeks postpartum. The control group (CG) received brief sleep hygiene information at a prenatal session, followed by 2 phone calls during the same period. Mother-infant pairs wore actigraphs for 48 hours at 6 and 12 weeks postpartum, and mothers kept sleep diaries. Questionnaires completed in late pregnancy and 6 and 12 weeks postpartum related to sleep, newborn care, and mood. The main outcome measures included maternal sleep quantity, efficiency, and self-reported quality and infant sleep duration and consolidation.
resultsMothers reported high acceptability of the study processes. Sleep duration and quality increased for mothers and infants across time in both groups, with a significantly greater increase in nocturnal sleep duration for mothers in the SIG.
conclusionsPrenatal sleep guidance and postnatal follow-up seems to enhance nocturnal sleep of mothers, change their perceptions of their own sleep, and increase confidence in managing their infant's sleep. Follow-up at later intervals and replication with larger, more diverse samples may reveal further differences.
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