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Assisting infants to achieve self-regulated sleep: The KIDSCODEŽ Baby Process |
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Assisting infants to achieve self-regulated sleep:
The KIDSCODEŽ Baby Process
Lisa Ford
THE KIDSCODEŽ BABY PROCESS is a three-day, in-home intervention aimed at assisting parents to support their infant in developing self-regulation and achieving sleep easily. The program also aims to help parents to reduce their own stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms. This pilot study evaluated the outcomes of the KIDSCODEŽ Baby Process for families with an infant sleep problem. Ten families with an infant aged between six weeks and 15 months participated. Findings indicate that, after completing the KIDSCODEŽ Baby Process, infant night-time sleep increased significantly in quantity. Infant sleep was also found to improve in quality. One week after the intervention, the number of night wakings, the number of aids needed to settle to sleep, and the time taken to settle infants to sleep had all reduced significantly. Parents were able to maintain these changes over time. Following intervention, mothers also had significantly more sleep, and stress, anxiety and depression reduced significantly for both mothers and fathers over the month following intervention.
Australasian Journal of Early Childhood – Volume 36 No 3 September 2011
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 September 2011 )
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