Effect of the INSIGHT Firstborn Parenting Intervention on Secondborn Sleep.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

The Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories (INSIGHT) responsive parenting (RP) intervention for first-time mothers improved firstborn infant sleep compared with controls. The goals of this analysis were to test intervention spillover effects on secondborn siblings and examine birth order differences in infant sleep.

Methods

Secondborns (n = 117) of INSIGHT mothers were enrolled in an observational cohort, SIBSIGHT. The Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire was collected at 3, 16, and 52 weeks. Generalized linear mixed models assessed differences among secondborns by firstborn randomization, as well as birth order differences at 16 and 52 weeks.

Results

The RP group secondborns slept 42 minutes longer at night (95% confid

SUBMITTER: Hohman EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9893513 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature