INSIGHT Responsive Parenting Intervention and Infant Sleep

The responsive parenting intervention significantly increased infant nocturnal sleep duration at 8, 16, and 40 weeks compared with safety controls, with effects of 35, 25, and 22 minutes respectively,

Effect: improvement; 35 minutes longer at 8 weeks

The responsive parenting intervention significantly increased the proportion of infants who self-soothed to sleep at 8, 16, and 40 weeks compared with safety controls.

Effect: improvement; 44% vs 28% at 16 weeks

The responsive parenting intervention significantly improved bedtime routine behaviors including earlier bedtimes, shorter bedtime routines, and reduced feeding as the last activity before bed at 16 a

Effect: improvement; 46% vs 24% in bed by 8 PM at 16 weeks

The responsive parenting intervention reduced the proportion of mothers who fed their infant back to sleep after night waking at 16 and 40 weeks, and increased dream feeding at both time points, compa

Effect: improvement; 54% vs 72% fed back to sleep at 16 weeks

The responsive parenting intervention had no effect on daytime sleep duration at any time point from 2 weeks to 1 year.

Effect: null

Across the total sample, infants who self-soothed to sleep and had a bedtime at 8 PM or earlier slept on average 78 minutes longer at night at 40 weeks than those who did not self-soothe and had a lat

Effect: improvement; 78 minutes longer nighttime sleep at 40 weeks