The Rocky Sleep Study

Summary

Night waking with crying can be a distressing and difficult experience for infants and their parents. The investigators want to reduce infant night waking and crying and improve parents' views of their infants' sleep. This study will help the investigators determine whether parents who receive group teaching about infant sleep and follow-up phone calls provided by Public Health Nurses will reduce numbers of infants' night wakes and parents' perceptions of infant sleep difficulties compared with parents who receive a group teaching about infant safety and follow-up phone calls provided by Public Health Nurses. Results from this study will help the investigators improve their practice when assisting parents and infants with sleep problems.

Conditions

• Sleep Problems

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Controlled crying and routines

Behavioural (teaching and support)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• University of British Columbia

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Wendy Hall, RN, PhD · University of British Columbia

• Radhika Bhagat, RN, MN · Vancouver Coastal Health

• Rollin Brant, Ph.D · Centre for Community Child Health Research

• Jean Paul Collett, Ph.D · Child and Family Research Institute

• Amiram Gafni, Ph.D · McMaster University

• Dorothy Hamilton, RN, BSN · Vancouver Coastal Health

• Eileen Hutton, Ph.D · McMaster University

• Kathy Hydamaka, RN, BSN · Vancouver Coastal Health

• Osman Ipsiroglu, MD · Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children

• Valerie Munroe, RN, MSN · Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute

• Roy Saunders, MD · Seymour Medical Clinic

• Kathy Triolet, RN, BSN · Vancouver Coastal Health

• Lillian Tse, RN, MSN · Vancouver Coastal Health

• Joanne Wooldridge, RN, MSN · Vancouver Coastal Health

Study Design

Allocation

NA

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

6 Months

Max Age

8 Months

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2009-06-30

Primary Completion

2011-05-31

Completion

2011-09-30

Countries

• Canada

Study Locations