NCT05322174

The Baby Care Study

The Baby Care Study: Online Support for New Parents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: State University of New York at Buffalo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to provide pilot data on the feasibility and effectiveness of a web-based social networking intervention designed to promote sleep early in infancy and to explore the potential for this approach to promote healthy feeding routines, eating behaviors, and weight outcomes in subsequent larger-scale intervention research. First-time parents will be recruited (n=66) and randomized to an 8-week web-based social networking sleep intervention or general baby care control group with interventions beginning at infant age 8 weeks. Parents will complete online surveys, with research questions including: 1) whether the sleep intervention leads to longer nighttime and total sleep duration and decreased night waking among infants and 2) longer infant sleep bouts and improved parent sleep duration, stress, parenting efficacy, and parenting satisfaction. We will also examine infants' routines, feeding and eating behaviors, and emotion regulation to inform the application of this approach for childhood obesity prevention. The pilot research will provide insights into intervention feasibility, effects on infant sleep, and potential impacts on feeding and eating outcomes, informing our next steps.

Conditions

• Sleep
• Parenting
• Eating Behavior
• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Baby Sleep	See arm description
BEHAVIORAL	Baby Care	See arm description

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-13
• Primary completion: 2023-02-03
• Completion: 2023-02-03
• First posted: 2022-04-11
• Last updated: 2023-10-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States