NCT00796523

An Intervention to Decrease Infant Crying

A Randomized, Controlled Trial to Decrease Infant Crying

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 51 (actual)
• Sponsor: Riverside Methodist Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a study looking at the Happiest Baby on the Block technique. The investigators hypothesized that infants of mothers given a 30 minute videotape demonstrating the Happiest Baby on the Block technique would fuss/cry less and sleep longer than infants of mothers given a 30 minute videotape on general newborn care. The investigators also hypothesized that mothers given the Happiest Baby on the Block videotape would have lower levels of stress.

Detailed description

Mothers recorded their babies fussing, crying and sleeping on paper diaries when their infants were 1, 4, 6, 8 and 12 weeks old.

Conditions

• Colic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Happiest Baby videotape	a videotape demonstrating the Happiest Baby on the Block technique for calming crying infants
BEHAVIORAL	control videotape	a videotape with general newborn care instructions

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-08-01
• Primary completion: 2006-02-01
• Completion: 2006-05-01
• First posted: 2008-11-24
• Last updated: 2008-11-24
• Results posted: 2008-11-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States