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Reduce African-American Infant Mortality

NCT01361880 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1200

Last updated 2017-07-05

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Summary

The overall purpose of this randomized trial is to develop and evaluate a systematic approach to improve African-American parental behaviors specifically with regards to the infant sleep environment. African-American parents of newborn, healthy term infants will be randomized to receive either a standard message to avoid bedsharing, eliminate use of soft bedding and soft sleep surfaces, and to place infants in the supine position for sleep to reduce the risk of SIDS or an enhanced message to avoid these behaviors to both reduce the risk of SIDS and to prevent infant suffocation.

Conditions

  • Health Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Reduce Infant Mortality

The study's long term goal is to disseminate a new easily implemented and reproducible intervention that based on our previous research is culturally competent and provides a rationale for changing infant sleep position and sleep environment. This intervention if successful will quickly be disseminated and will be an important change to the system of newborn care; the resultant change in parental behavior would ultimately result in a reduction in sleep-related infant mortality rates thereby promoting healthy development.After written consent has been obtained, a brief survey about knowledge of and attitudes toward safe sleep position recommendations, current intent with regards to safe sleep recommendations, and demographics will be completed. Contact information will be obtained from participants to facilitate study follow-up at two weeks of infants birth 2-3 months and 5-6 months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Children's National Research Institute

    collaborator OTHER

  • Medstar Health Research Institute

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Virginia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rachel Y Moon, MD · University of Virginia

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-06-30
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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