Journal article
Does an intervention that improves infant sleep also improve overweight at age 6? Follow-up of a randomised trial
M Wake, A Price, S Clifford, OC Ukoumunne, H Hiscock
Archives of Disease in Childhood | Published : 2011
Abstract
Objective: Short sleep duration may contribute to childhood obesity. Amenable to intervention, sleep thus provides a potential path for prevention. The authors aimed to determine the impact of a behavioural intervention that successfully reduced parent-reported infant sleep problems on adiposity at age 6. Design: 5-year follow-up of a previously reported population-based cluster randomised trial. Participant allocation was concealed to researchers and data collection blinded. Setting: Recruitment from well-child centres in Melbourne, Australia. Participants: 328 children (174 intervention) with parent-reported sleep problems at age 7-8 months drawn from 49 centres (clusters). Intervention: B..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The Infant Sleep Study was funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant 237120 and the Pratt Foundation, and the follow-up Kids Sleep Study by the Foundation for Children (Project Grant 180 2009). The authors' work was independent of the funders (the funding source had no involvement). MW was supported by NHMRC Population Health Career Development Awards #284556 and #546405, AP by a Melbourne Research Scholarship (The University of Melbourne), SC by the Foundation for Children Grant, and OCU's and HH's postdoctoral positions by NHMRC Population Health Capacity Building Grant 436914.