Improving Infant Sleep Safety With the Electronic Health Record

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Conditions studied: SIDS, Infant Development

In brief

This research is being done to find out if individualized feedback provided to parents on safe infant sleep can improve safety. This will be accomplished by having parents send photographs of their baby sleeping through the patient portal of the electronic health record (EHR).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03662048

Run by

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

People needed

130

Starts

2018-10-30

Expected to finish

2019-09-11

Last updated by the study team

2019-10-11

Who can join

Age: any, up to 0. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Gestational age: ≥37 weeks
• Singleton birth
• Newborns ages 0 days to 14 days old
• Newborn nursery stay <=7 days
• English speaking mother
• Mother ≥18 years old
• Has email/internet access
• Willing to sign up for the Penn State Health Patient Portal through the Electronic Health Record (EHR)
• Owns a smart phone, digital camera, or tablet that can take pictures to be transmitted through the EHR
• Plan to follow with a Penn State Health Provider though the infant's 3-4 month well child visit

You may not qualify if…

• Maternal morbidity or pre-existing condition that affects ability to care for the newborn (e.g. narcotic drug use, chemotherapy, uncontrolled depression etc.)
• Child is being adopted or will not be in the care of the mother

Where it is running

• Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center — Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

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