Nanit Lab Research Abstracts

Stress around infant sleep is associated with stress around returning to work after paternity leave

This study aimed to asses levels of stress relative to return to work after parental leave among fathers and explore whether they are associated with stress relative to baby’s sleep, job flexibility (work from home vs no work from home) and age of the baby when father returns to work. 

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“My Child sleeps poorly, but I just can’t do it”: Parental barriers to behavioral sleep interventions and links to auto-videosomnography.

This study aimed to identify the main barriers of BSI implementation as perceived by parents, as well as possible solutions to reduce the impact of these barriers. We further aimed to compare parents of infants with sleep problems who are willing to implement BSIs compared to those not prepared to use these interventions in their objective sleep, parent-reported sleep, parental cry tolerance, and parental depressive symptoms. 

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Parents’ Values Shape Parenting Practices and Beliefs that Impact Infant Sleep

This study asked whether parents’ values impacted parenting expectations related to infant sleep. 

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Using Auto-Videosomnography to Study the Relation between Sleep and Nightwaking in Infancy

The aim of this study was to test whether auto-videosomnography, which has been shown to be as accurate as actigraphy for documenting infants’ sleep characteristics (Horger, et al., 2021), could efficiently capture the relation between infants’ sleep and motor development.

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Nocturnal parental involvement in infant sleep is associated with worse parental sleep, but only among fathers

This study investigated the associations between parent nocturnal interventions in infant sleep and parental sleep duration and subjective quality, accounting for infant’s age, infant nocturnal sleep duration and number of awakenings, and parental perceived stress. We also investigated whether these associations differed in mothers vs fathers. 

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Partner involvement in infant care at night is associated with better maternal sleep postpartum

This study aimed to quantify the associations between maternal sleep duration and partner involvement in infant care at night.

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Determinants of infant sleep health: bedtime behavioral factors, socioeconomic status, and parental perceived stress but not infant race/ethnicity are associated with infant sleep.

In this study, we aim to examine racial/ethnic differences in sleep in a sample of non-Hispanic White (NHW) and Hispanic infants between 6-12 months of age, accounting for socioeconomic status, parental stress, and parent-infant bedtime behavioral factors.

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Links between parental education, infant nighttime sleep duration, and parental confidence in managing infant sleep

This study aimed to examine the associations between parental confidence and sleep among parents of infants who use a commercially available video sleep monitor and an associated mobile sleep health application. 

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Parental Report versus Auto-Videosomnography Assessment Of Children’s Sleep

This study aims to explore 1) the differences between parent reported vs auto-videosomnography assessed child’s sleep; and 2)  variables associated with differences of these two measures.

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