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- Title
Treating sleep disturbance in infants: What generalizes?
- Authors
Healey, Dione; France, Karyn G.; Blampied, Neville M.
- Abstract
When treating infant sleep problems implementing treatment procedures at bedtime-only might be easier and more efficient than requiring parents to implement procedures throughout the night, but only if improvements at bedtime generalize to later in the night. This study investigated the immediate and generalized effect of treating bedtime settling problems and later night waking in infants and whether it was parent or child behavior that generalized. Parents recorded sleep problems of seven infants (6–20 months) who exhibited chronic sleep disturbance, then implemented a graduated checking procedure at bedtime-only (Setting 1). A multiple-baseline across-settings and participants design was employed. Immediate (in Setting 1) and any generalized effects (in Setting 2) on wakings and other changes in parent and child behavior were assessed by diary information and all-night infra-red video recordings. Clinically significant reductions in sleep problems were evident for five out of seven infants, but these were not consistently observed until parents generalized their use of the procedure throughout the night. There was no evidence that the infants generalized changes in self-soothing from bedtime to later. It is concluded that changes in infant sleep problems are unlikely to occur unless parents actually alter their management of the problems across all settings in which the problems occur. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
SLEEP in infants; SLEEP disorders in children; BEDTIME; SLEEP disorders treatment; SOMNOLOGY; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2009, Vol 24, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.274