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Brief behavioural intervention for infant sleep problems reduces depression in mothers
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Does brief behavioural intervention aimed at modification of infant sleep patterns at age 8 months improve maternal depression and child sleep at age 2 years?
328 mothers reporting infant sleep problems at age 7 months. Mothers were recruited to the study when the infant was 4 months old but were only allocated to intervention or usual care if they reported infant sleep problems in a questionnaire administered at 7 months of age. Exclusions: infants born before 32 weeks’ gestation; or mother’s English too poor to complete self-report questionnaire.
Well child centres in six government areas (two low, two medium and two highly disadvantaged), Melbourne, Australia. Recruitment October to November 2003.
Brief behavioural sleep intervention (n = 174) or usual well child care (n = 154). Sleep intervention was delivered by specially trained nurses who taught parents two main strategies: either "controlled crying", where parents respond to the infant’s cries at
Key Centre for Women's Health in Society, WHO Collaborating Centre for Women's Health, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne 3010, Australia
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