Effect of Early Parent Education on Children's Sleep (WISH)

March 31, 2026 updated by: University of Chicago

Effect of Early Parent Education on Children's Sleep: Beyond Risk Factors

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if providing sleep information and advice to expecting parents can increase sleep duration and decrease sleep problems in infants. The main questions it aims to answer is:

  • Does providing sleep information and advice to parents after birth enhance baby's total sleep duration over the 24-months study?
  • Which study group has fewer sleep problems (bedtime resistance, night waking frequency and duration, difficulty with naps) over the 24-month period?

Participants will:

  • Receive regularly scheduled sleep information and advice emails
  • Complete weekly surveys for the first 8 weeks after birth
  • Complete monthly online surveys up to 24 months

Researchers will compare both intervention groups to a control group that received no information and advice to see if the information and advice had an impact on the child's sleep.

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

391

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Locations

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Currently pregnant
  • Two-parent families or single-parent families
  • Current or new patient at Weissbluth Pediatrics

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Adopting parents
  • Multiple pregnancy (twins, triplets, etc.)
  • Siblings (one enrolled child per family)

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Triple

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Control
Experimental: Group 2
Behavioral: Sleep Information and Advice 2
All participants will receive sleep information and advice.
Experimental: Group 1
Behavioral: Sleep Information and Advice 1
All participants will receive sleep information and advice

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Total sleep duration
Time Frame: From infant's birth to the end of intervention at 24-months
From infant's birth to the end of intervention at 24-months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Chicago

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

January 29, 2026

Primary Completion (Estimated)

April 30, 2029

Study Completion (Estimated)

April 30, 2029

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

March 31, 2026

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 31, 2026

First Posted (Actual)

April 7, 2026

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 7, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 31, 2026

Last Verified

March 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • IRB24-2167

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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