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Session Schedule

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0:00:00
Symposium introduction and an overview of different cultural approaches to child sleep health promotion interventions
Ree M. Meertens (Netherlands)

0:17:25
Sleep health of Australian First Nations children: Community-led initiatives to improve sleep health of young people
Roslyn Von Senden (Australia)

0:37:55
Promoting infant and maternal sleep among Black American families in the early postpartum period: A randomized clinical trial
Justin A. Lavner (United States)

0:54:25
Culturally and family tailored sleep intervention for Japanese young children: A community-based approach using an interactive smartphone application
Arika Yoshizaki (Japan)

1:09:40
Sleep on number 1! Development, co-creation and evaluation of an infant sleep intervention tailored to Dutch pediatric primary care
Marijn P. W. van de Sande (Netherlands)

1:23:15
Question and answer

Summary

Poor sleep in babies and infants is detrimental for the child's development and for the quality of life of their parents. In a more and more multi-cultural world, efforts to improve the sleep health of infants need to be adapted to appeal to the target group’s culture in order to actually be implemented and improve sleep health. This symposium brings together an international and diverse group of sleep health promotion researchers, educators, and professionals. The presentations will discuss innovative approaches to develop, adapt and evaluate sleep interventions for infants for specific cultures around the world (e.g., using co-creation or co-design methods or smart phone applications).

Dr. Ree Meertens (chair) will introduce the symposium and lead the discussion afterwards. In her introduction she will discuss the available scientific evidence for the effectiveness of sleep health promotion interventions for infants in several cultures (e.g. baby massage, white noise, outdoor sleeping, swaddling, behavioral interventions). The discussion will focus on whether approaches used in one culture could lead to innovative approaches in other cultures.

Prof. Yaqoot Fatima will present together with Ms. Roslyn von Senden (Australian First Nation presenter). They will first discuss how First Nations' Australians conceptualize sleep health. Then they will present results of a study and systematic review on sleep habits of Australian First Nations' children, and go into community-led initiatives to improve the sleep health of Australian First Nations' children.

Dr. Justin Lavner (co-chair) will give an overview of the key components of responsive parenting interventions, and how a responsive parenting intervention was adapted for Black American families. Furthermore, he will present the intervention effects on infant and maternal sleep at 8 and 16 weeks postpartum, for which 212 Black mothers were randomized to an intervention and a control group.

Dr. Arika Yoshizaki will present on the development and evaluation of a community-based culturally- and family-tailored sleep intervention for Japanese young children. She will discuss the cultural-specific customs and recent changes in Japanese family life that are related to sleep habits in Japanese young children. Then she will go into the development of the interactive smartphone app “Nenne Navi,” which provides culturally- and family-tailored suggestions for improving sleep habits in young Japanese children through community-based long-term trials. A total of 87 Japanese caregivers with young children were recruited and assigned to an intervention and a control group, evaluation results will be discussed.

Ms. Marijn van de Sande will present on the development and evaluation of the 'Sleep on number 1!' intervention for caregivers of 0-2 year-old children. The intervention was designed to be implemented into Dutch pediatric primary care, and was co-created with parents and professionals. The intervention pays special attention to children's caregivers with migrant backgrounds. The results of a process evaluation and effect evaluation will be presented, where differences between intervention and control regions on sleep-related variables were tested at 3 and 6 months (421 caregivers recruited).

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this CME activity, participants will be able to:
• Summarize the available scientific evidence for the effectiveness of sleep health promotion interventions for infants in several cultures (e.g. baby massage, white noise, outdoor sleeping, swaddling, behavioral interventions)
• Conclude First Nations' conceptualisation of sleep health
• Recognize best practices for co-designing sleep health programs for First Nations peoples
• Recognize key components of a responsive parenting intervention for first-time Black American mothers delivered in the early postpartum period
• Illustrate how the responsive parenting intervention was adapted for Black American families
• Identify intervention effects on infant and maternal sleep at 8 and 16 weeks postpartum
• Interpret how they could adapt their sleep interventions to Japanese cultures and situations
• Know how to develop and evaluate an interactive smartphone application designed to improve sleep habits in Japanese young children
• Summarize how to improve sleep habits in Japanese young children
• Definehow to develop an infant sleep intervention via co-creation with parents and healthcare professionals
• Describe Dutch parents’ infant sleep management perspectives
• Identify intervention effects on infant sleep outcomes at 10 weeks and 6 months
• Recall the process evaluation results