Improving Pediatrician Counseling About Infant Safe Sleep Using the Electronic Medical Record

Description

The study team will evaluate the impact of an Infant Sleep Assessment (ISA) tool with motivational interviewing (MI) communication training on clinician-parent communication during 2-month Well Baby Visits (WBV) and parent reported and observed infant sleep practices. The study team's hypotheses are that 1) clinicians who utilize the ISA with MI training will more effectively communicate safe sleep information to their patients' parents, and 2) these parents will have safer infant sleep practices than parents whose clinicians are in a standard of care control group.

Conditions

Sudden Infant Death, Sudden Unexplained Infant Death

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Study overview

The study team will evaluate the impact of an Infant Sleep Assessment (ISA) tool with motivational interviewing (MI) communication training on clinician-parent communication during 2-month Well Baby Visits (WBV) and parent reported and observed infant sleep practices. The study team's hypotheses are that 1) clinicians who utilize the ISA with MI training will more effectively communicate safe sleep information to their patients' parents, and 2) these parents will have safer infant sleep practices than parents whose clinicians are in a standard of care control group.

Health IT to Reduce Disparities in Risks for Sleep-related Infant Deaths, (SAFE Start 2.0 Project)

Improving Pediatrician Counseling About Infant Safe Sleep Using the Electronic Medical Record

Condition
Sudden Infant Death
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Baltimore

Harriet Lane Clinic, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * English and Spanish-speaking parents and legal guardians bringing their infants to the Harriet Lane Clinic (pediatric primary care clinic) for any of their early well baby visits (between 3-5 days up to 4 weeks of age)
  • * Maryland recognizes teen parents as emancipated minors, so they will be eligible to provide consent and participate.
  • * Infant is considered medically complex (e.g., serious congenital anomaly, requires cardiorespiratory monitoring, etc.)
  • * Assigned resident is not enrolled in the study

Ages Eligible for Study

3 Days to 75 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Johns Hopkins University,

Barry Solomon, MD, MPH, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Division of General Pediatrics

Eileen M McDonald, MS, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Marisabel Cordon Villa de Leon, MPH, STUDY_DIRECTOR, Division of General Pediatrics

Study Record Dates

2026-02-28