Re-enforcing Safe Sleep Practices for Caregivers With Tangible Incentives

Re-enforcing Safe Sleep Practices for Caregivers With Tangible Incentives: Pilot Testing of the MSSC Physician Safe Sleep Taskforce Caregiver Incentive Toolkit

This study is a pilot study to test the effectiveness of incentive items to increase compliance of infant safe sleep practices among caregivers.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Safe Sleep Education
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Wearable Blanket (Sleep Sack); Other: Incentive Item

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 152
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Kansas
    • Wichita, Kansas, United States, 67214
      • KU Wichita Pediatrics

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Parent of 1-month old baby
• Over the age of 18
• Be able to speak and read English

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Wearable Blanket; subjects randomized to this group will receive a wearable blanket (sleep sack) that contains a safe sleep message.	Other: Wearable Blanket (Sleep Sack)
Active Comparator: Control Group; subjects randomized to this group will receive an incentive item (such as a University of Kansas Pediatrics water Bottle) that does not contain the safe sleep message.	Other: Incentive Item

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
dichotomous sleep variable (safe vs unsafe)	change measured using "safe sleep quiz" questionnaire	Change from Baseline to 2 Months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
determine which incentive item provided is most effective in reinforcing the safe sleep message	determination to be assessed using questionnaire completed by caregiver	Change from Baseline to 2 Months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Kansas
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Carolyn R Ahlers-Schmidt, PhD, University of Kansas Medical Center

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: October 1, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 1, 2014
• Study Completion (Actual): November 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 9, 2013
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 9, 2013
• First Posted (Estimate): December 12, 2013

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): April 16, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 15, 2015
• Last Verified: April 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: SIDS; safe sleep; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; safe sleep message
• Other Study ID Numbers: 13-017 (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)