A single-arm pilot study: can a parental sleep intervention for sleep-disturbed young children in individual settings improve children's sleep, crying, eating, and parental distress in mothers and fathers?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early sleep problems co-occur with crying, eating problems, and parental distress. This study investigates the impact of a parent-focused intervention to improve child sleep with the following aims: (1) To assess the impact on child sleep (sleep onset latency, frequency and duration of nighttime awakenings, frequency of bed-sharing, and nighttime food intake, total nighttime sleep duration, and sleep efficiency), child crying (frequency of crying episodes, of unexplained and unsoothable crying and of crying out of defiance), child eating difficulties, and parental distress of mothers and fathers. (2) To assess the maintenance of any changes in these areas longitudinally, at 3-month, 6-month, and 12-month follow-ups. (3) To explore at the within-subjects level, how childr

SUBMITTER: Schnatschmidt M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9541003 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature