The Efficacy of the Nanit-Insights App in Improving Infant Sleep

Tel Aviv University

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Infant Sleep Problems

Treatments: Behavioral: Nanit-Insights

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03640533

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study aims to examine the effectiveness of Nanit-Insights, an app-based intervention for parents who wish to improve their infant's sleep.

Full description

The proposed study aims to examine the effectiveness of Nanit-Insights, an app-based intervention for parents who wish to improve their infant's sleep. The intervention provides parents with daily sleep metrics as well as personalized sleep recommendations, based on their infant's developmental stage and weekly sleep data.

Participants will be parents of 5-7 month-old infants, randomized into one of two groups: (1) the intervention group, which will include users who have purchased the baby monitor without subscribing to Nanit Insights and are then offered a six month subscription to Nanit-Insights when their baby is 5-7 months of age; and (2) the control group, which will include users of the baby monitor, who have not subscribed to Nanit-Insights.

Each group will include approximately 150 families.

Sleep will be assessed at baseline and 3- and 6-months following the beginning of the intervention. Computer vision technology will be used to assess infant sleep, as well as parental adherence to the intervention, allowing us to determine whether adherence mediates sleep benefits.

The results of this study are expected to evaluate the effectiveness of a low-cost, app-based intervention for infant sleep problems. Furthermore, the results may broaden the understanding of the mediating role of parent adherence in such interventions.

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 7 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Infant aged 5-7 months
• Presence of a moderate to severe sleep problem at baseline
• Sleeping arrangement in which the infant sleeps in a crib at night

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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37 participants in 2 patient groups

Nanit-Insights intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Nanit-Insights is an app-based intervention that provides parents with personalized sleep recommendations, based on their infant's developmental stage and weekly sleep data.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nanit-Insights

Nanit-monitor control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the control group will be given the same monitoring device, that will serve in this group as a baby-monitor only, without providing sleep recommendations to parents.