NCT03662048

Improving Infant Sleep Safety With the Electronic Health Record

Improving Infant Sleep Safety With the Electronic Health Record: Using Infant Photographs Taken by Parents for Individualized Feedback

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 130 (actual)
• Sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This research is being done to find out if individualized feedback provided to parents on safe infant sleep can improve safety. This will be accomplished by having parents send photographs of their baby sleeping through the patient portal of the electronic health record (EHR).

Detailed description

The purpose of this study is to assess if photographs of infants sleeping at night sent by parents through the patient portal of the electronic health record (EHR) can be used to a) deliver individualized feedback on safe infant sleep surfaces and sleep health and b) improve parental knowledge of and adherence to guidelines for safe infant sleep surfaces and sleep health. The feasibility of this approach will also be assessed through a randomized, clinical trial involving 130 infants with primary care through Penn State Health. Participants will be randomized to receive personalized feedback on the infant sleep position and surface at age 1 month in addition to usual care or a usual care group. Both groups will receive personalized feedback on the infant sleep position and surface at infant age 2 months.

Conditions

• SIDS
• Infant Development

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Safe	Feedback, according to the 2016 national American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines on Sudden Unexplained Infant Death (SUID) risk factors, will be generated by the study team and communicated with parents. Feedback will be given to parents in the intervention group at ages 1 and 2 months. The control group parents will only receive this feedback at age 2 months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-10-30
• Primary completion: 2019-09-11
• Completion: 2019-09-11
• First posted: 2018-09-07
• Last updated: 2019-10-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States