“To our knowledge, Sleep SAAF is the first study to show any benefits of [an] RP intervention on sleep and sleep practices among Black infants and their families,” they write.
The researchers note that a limitation of the study is that the study sample was limited to Black first-time mothers recruited from a single medical center in Georgia.
The study by Dr. Lavner et al. was funded by the National Institutes of Health, a Harrington Faculty Fellowship from the University of Texas, and an award from the Penn State Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. Editorialist Dr. Honaker reported receiving grants from Nationwide Children’s Hospital (parent grant, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to evaluate the acceptability of infant behavioral sleep intervention in Black families.