The Effect of Nursing Quality Improvement and Mobile Health Interventions on Infant Sleep Practices: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Inadequate adherence to recommendations known to reduce the risk of sudden unexpected infant death has contributed to a slowing in the decline of these deaths.

Objective

To assess the effectiveness of 2 interventions separately and combined to promote infant safe sleep practices compared with control interventions.

Design, setting, and participants

Four-group cluster randomized clinical trial of mothers of healthy term newborns who were recruited between March 2015 and May 2016 at 16 US hospitals with more than 100 births annually. Data collection ended in October 2016.

Interventions

All participants were beneficiaries of a nursing quality improvement campaign in infant safe sleep practices (intervention) or breastfeeding (control), and then received

SUBMITTER: Moon RY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5593130 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature