The Baby Sleep Project is a series of research studies, stemming from our work preventing Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) with a wider remit to help protect vulnerable families and their infants. There are 2 studies beginning in 2021.
Study 1: Family Survey & Interviews
This study hopes to find out how families look after babies, including mothers, fathers, partners, grandparents and peers. We’ll ask about looking after a baby, including feeding, sleep, products and advice. We want to invite the families of mothers who are getting extra support, including those on the Universal Plus and Universal Partnership Plus health visiting programmes and/or working with Family Nurse Partnerships. This study begins in December 2021.
Study 2: Baby Sleep Planner
This is a study to develop an online tool to assess risk and plan for safer sleep at times when the routine gets disrupted (eg staying away from home, after a night out). We will work with health professionals and families to design a tool showing the risks for a baby in each sleep scenario. The user will be able to change the sleep scenario in the tool and watch the risks change. They can use this to plan for keeping baby safe on busy nights. We will then test out the tool by giving it to health professionals to use with the families that they see who are getting extra support. We’d like to interview these professionals and some of the families to get feedback we can use to make the tool work better. This study begins in December 2021.
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