Mother-Infant Room-Sharing and Sleep Outcomes in the INSIGHT Study.

ABSTRACT: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends infant-parent room-sharing until age 1. We assessed the association between room-sharing and sleep outcomes. The Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories study is an obesity prevention trial comparing a responsive parenting intervention with a safety control among primiparous mother-infant dyads. Mothers completed the Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire at 4, 9, 12, and 30 months. Reported sleep duration and overnight behaviors, adjusted for intervention group, were compared among early independent sleepers (own room <4 months), later independent sleepers (own room between 4 and 9 months), and room-sharers at 9 months. At 4 months, reported overnight sleep duration was similar between groups, but compared with room-sharers

SUBMITTER: Paul IM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5495531 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature