An Intervention to Decrease Infant Crying

Riverside Methodist Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colic

Treatments: Behavioral: Happiest Baby videotape; Behavioral: control videotape

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00796523

941

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a study looking at the Happiest Baby on the Block technique. The investigators hypothesized that infants of mothers given a 30 minute videotape demonstrating the Happiest Baby on the Block technique would fuss/cry less and sleep longer than infants of mothers given a 30 minute videotape on general newborn care. The investigators also hypothesized that mothers given the Happiest Baby on the Block videotape would have lower levels of stress.

Full description

Mothers recorded their babies fussing, crying and sleeping on paper diaries when their infants were 1, 4, 6, 8 and 12 weeks old.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 5 days old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Mothers of singleton newborns

• 37 to 41 week gestation
• healthy (no ICU admission)

Exclusion criteria

• not able to view videotape at home
• not able to speak English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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51 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Happiest Baby videotape

Experimental group

Description:

videotape describing the Happiest Baby on the Block technique

Treatment:

Behavioral: Happiest Baby videotape

control videotape

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

videotape with normal newborn instruction

Treatment:

Behavioral: control videotape