Sleep SAAF: a responsive parenting intervention to prevent excessive weight gain and obesity among African American infants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Responsive parenting interventions that shape parenting behaviors in the areas of sleep and soothing, appropriate and responsive feeding, and routines represent a promising approach to early obesity prevention and have demonstrated effectiveness in our previous trials. However, this approach has yet to be applied to the populations most at-risk for the development of early obesity, including African Americans. The Sleep SAAF (Strong African American Families) study is a two-arm randomized controlled clinical trial evaluating whether a responsive parenting intervention focused on promoting infant sleeping and self-soothing can prevent rapid weight gain during the first 16 weeks postpartum among first-born African American infants. The responsive parenting intervention is

SUBMITTER: Lavner JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6610994 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature