Assessment of Safe Sleep: Validation of the Parent Newborn Sleep Safety Survey

Whiteside-Mansell, Leanne; Nabaweesi, Rosemary; Caballero, Alison Rose; Mullins, Samantha H.; Miller, Beverly; Aitken, Mary E.

doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2017.02.033

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“…Of these study samples, approximately 46.5% of respondents were parents, 41% were self-report, and 11.1% either a combination of experts, children, mothers, and parents. For two, the respondent is primarily a professional (17,95).…”

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Pediatric Sleep Tools: An Updated Literature Review

Sen

Spruyt

2020

Front. Psychiatry

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Since a thorough review in 2011 by Spruyt, into the integral pitfalls of pediatric questionnaires in sleep, sleep researchers worldwide have further evaluated many existing tools. This systematic review aims to comprehensively evaluate and summarize the tools currently in circulation and provide recommendations for potential evolving avenues of pediatric sleep interest. 144 "tool"-studies (70 tools) have been published aiming at investigating sleep in primarily 6-18 years old per parental report. Although 27 new tools were discovered, most of the studies translated or evaluated the psychometric properties of existing tools. Some form of normative values has been established in 18 studies. More than half of the tools queried general sleep problems. Extra efforts in tool development are still needed for tools that assess children outside the 6-to-12-year-old age range, as well as for tools examining sleep-related aspects beyond sleep problems/disorders. Especially assessing the validity of tools has been pursued vis-à-vis fulfillment of psychometric criteria. While the Spruyt et al. review provided a rigorous step-by-step guide into the development and validation of such tools, a pattern of steps continue to be overlooked. As these instruments are potentially valuable in assisting in the development of a clinical diagnosis into pediatric sleep pathologies, it is required that while they are primary subjective measures, they behave as objective measures. More tools for specific populations (e.g., in terms of ages, developmental disabilities, and sleep pathologies) are still needed.

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Section: Study Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pediatric Sleep Tools: An Updated Literature Review

Sen

Spruyt

2020

Front. Psychiatry

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“…The options included "every time," "more than half the time," "about half the time," "less than half the time," "never," and "don't know." Results demonstrated acceptable agreement between parental reports and observation, with one item showing strong agreement and four items showing moderate agreement [20].…”

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“…Sleep environment parent report The Newborn Sleep Safety Survey [20] was designed by study investigators to assess the family's living arrangements and the infant sleep environment. The survey assessed six key AAP recommendations including (1) supine sleep position, (2) firm sleep surface, (3) separate sleep location but in same room, (4) no soft items or loose bedding in sleep area, (5) not an overly warm sleep environment, and (6) pacifier use.…”

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“…An alternative to direct observation is parental reporting of safe sleep practices. The Newborn Sleep Safety Survey, developed and described by the study investigators [20], is a validated instrument to assess infant risk and intervention success. To build upon this work, a cost-effective safe sleep assessment methodology using smartphone photography was developed.…”

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“…Using photographs to assess an infant's sleep environment could potentially identify key safety issues related to the infant's sleep location, space, position, and items within and near the sleep space. The premise is that smartphone photography will be as effective as having a home visitor assess the sleep environment or parent report sleep practices using the Newborn Sleep Safety Survey [20] (see Supplement).…”

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Field assessment of a safe sleep instrument using smartphone technology

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Introduction: Sudden unexpected infant death is the leading cause of infant mortality with black: white infant mortality remaining at 2:1 for the last decade. Smartphone technology provides a convenient and accessible tool for injury prevention anticipatory guidance among at-risk communities. Materials and Methods: A convenience sample of pregnant teen mothers who own a smartphone. During a 1-month postnatal home visit, a safe sleep environment survey was administered, infant sleep practices were observed, and mothers trained to take and submit standard infants’ sleep environment photographs. Photographs were independently assessed for inter-rater reliability (IRR) across five sleep safety domains (primary outcome): sleep location, surface, position, presence of soft items, and hazards near the sleep area. Expert and novice coders IRR was measured using Cohen’s kappa coefficient (K). Sleep safety correlation between photographs and observation, and parent report and observation was determined. Results: Sixteen (57.1%) mothers completed the home visit. Most parents reported infants sleeping supine (78.5) in parents’ bedroom (85.9%). Photographs demonstrated sleep position, soft items without the baby present, and hanging toys had perfect agreement across all three coder pairs. Safe sleep experts’ IRR demonstrated perfect agreement for sleep location, position, and soft items. While 83.8% of parents were observed putting their infants down to sleep on their back, 78.5% of parents reported doing the same and 82.4% of the photographs demonstrated supine infant sleep position. Conclusion: Using photographs, coders can reliably categorize some key infant sleep safety aspects, and photograph sleep safety is comparable to parent report and direct observation.

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A comparison of parental attention and preferred items during tummy time: A consecutive controlled case series evaluation

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Tummy time is an activity for infants to practice their early motor skills. Although most pediatricians recommend tummy time, parents may avoid the procedures due to indices of infant discomfort during this period. This consecutive controlled case series evaluation compared the effects of preferred items selected from a preference assessment with those of parental attention on head evaluation and negative vocalizations during tummy time. In addition, we directly evaluated parental choice by inviting parents to select which tummy time treatment they wanted to implement. We found that both preferred items and parental attention effectively increased head elevation and decreased negative vocalizations during tummy time; however, parents tended to prefer the treatment that included the preferred item.

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Assessment of Safe Sleep: Validation of the Parent Newborn Sleep Safety Survey

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

Pediatric Sleep Tools: An Updated Literature Review

Pediatric Sleep Tools: An Updated Literature Review

Field assessment of a safe sleep instrument using smartphone technology

A comparison of parental attention and preferred items during tummy time: A consecutive controlled case series evaluation

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