This is a research study of African American parents/caregivers of newborns. The purpose of this research study is to learn what type of educational materials about infant safety and safe infant sleep are most effective and acceptable to parents and caregivers. The investigators will compare the responses of parents who receive enhanced materials to the responses of parents who receive the ordinary materials that are currently in use.
The goal of the proposed research is to determine whether a tailored multi-media mailed intervention is superior to standard non-tailored print brochures along with a generic DVD in increasing the prevalence of African American infant supine sleep during the first six months of life.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
735
Using information gleaned from interviews, educational print materials tailored to the participant's beliefs about infant safe sleep practices, will be mailed to the participants home at 2 separate times over a 6 month period along with a culturally relevant DVD with safe sleep information
Participants will receive currently available publications about infant sleep from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the AAP at 2 separate times over a 6 month period along with a generic DVD about infant safety practices
Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Infant's usual sleep position per parental report
Time frame: Change in position from study entry to infant ages 3 months and to six months; change in position from infant ages 3 months to 6 months
Infants position for last night's sleep per parental report
Time frame: Change in position from study entry to infant ages 3 months and six months; change in position from infant age 3 months to 6 months
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