Thanks for visiting The Rocky Sleep website. The recruitment phase of the Rocky Sleep Study is now complete. A total of 253 families in the Lower Mainland have joined the research trial. Our research team will continue to collect data from our 'last in' families until September 2011. Thereafter we will complete our analysis. Look for 'results' from the trial in spring 2012.
Thanks to the willingness of our participant families, we will have data from 253 infants, and their parents, to help us determine if the Sleep Intervention achieved the necessary outcomes to be adopted as a standard program or service through Public health Services.
We have left the summary of the research on the website for your interest:
What is the Rocky Sleep Study?
The Rocky Sleep Study is a trial of a sleep intervention. It has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Parents who have infants with behavioral sleep problems will paticipate in one of two groups. Group A
parents will attend a group sleep teaching session, and will receive infant safety information following
support phone calls and the second data collection point. Group B parents will attend a group safety
teaching session, and will receive sleep intervention information following support phone calls and the
second data collection point. Parents will be randomly assigned to either Group A or Group B.
Teaching sessions are two hours in length for both Group A and Group B parents. Both teaching sessions
will be delivered by trained public health nurses.
Research indicates that infants with persistent sleep problems are more likely to have behavioral problems
later in childhood. We developed the sleep intervention to help infants learn to soothe themselves to sleep.
Parents who receive information about sleep and safety will have valuable tools to assist their infants.
A pilot study demonstrated that the same approach to sleep problems helped 40 families improve their
infants' sleep. This project is important, because without evidence to show whether the approach to
assisting parents makes a difference, help delivered in a systematic way will not be available to families
across B.C. We need you to participate in this research. We are training public health nurses to provide
parents with the approach to infant sleep problems so that, if it's effectiveness is supported, we can
help parents who are struggling with infant sleep problems.