Perinatal depressive symptoms and child temperament at two years: The moderating role of child sleep duration.

Background: Perinatal depression has been linked to higher negative affectivity (NA) in children, though the strength of this association is variable. Infant sleep, a known protective factor, may moderate this relationship though this has not been tested.

Objective: To examine whether within-person changes in depressive symptoms across pregnancy and postpartum were linked to child NA, and whether infant sleep duration moderated these effects.

COVID-19 Stress and Family Well-Being: The Role of Sleep in Mental Health Outcomes for Parents and Children.

Background/objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced various stressors for families, including changes to daily routines, work, and schooling. Studies have linked these stressors to increased mental health challenges for parents and children. Sleep difficulties were also common during the pandemic, with some children and parents experiencing poorer sleep quality and shorter sleep duration.

Understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy during parenthood in British Columbia.

COVID-19 vaccine uptake was significantly lower in children under 12 when compared with adults. Vaccine hesitancy was a potential key contributor to the challenges faced in COVID-19 vaccine uptake METHODS: An online cross-sectional survey was conducted across British Columbia, Canada, from October to December 2021 to understand the COVID-19 vaccine perceptions of parents of children under 12 years of age. Participants completed a modified version of the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (VHS).

Psychological Distress in Childbearing Persons During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Trajectory Study of Anger, Anxiety, and Depression.

Psychological distress can manifest as depression, anxiety, and anger in the perinatal period. These conditions are often comorbid yet studied in isolation. A full understanding of perinatal psychopathology requires the spectrum of common psychological distress to be studied concurrently to better understand interconnected symptoms.

A scoping review of rural mental health and substance use nursing.

Introduction: Globally, nearly 50% of the population live in rural areas, while just 36% of nurses serve in these locations. Rural nurses face distinct challenges such as limited resources and geographical isolation, and often work with an expanded scope of practice that includes mental health and substance use (MHSU) care. The extent to which rural nurses engage in MHSU care, care barriers, and facilitators has not been previously well described.

School start times and their association with rurality in British Columbia, Canada: An environmental scan.

Study Objectives: Since later school start times are associated with increased sleep duration, our objectives were to identify mean school start times, the proportion of schools that start at 08:30 am or later, and determine if rurality was associated with school start times.

Methods: We conducted web searches for start times of 1759 standard schools in British Columbia (BC), Canada. Schools were categorized as elementary, elementary-middle, middle, middle-high, or high school and linked to an Index of Remoteness.

Sleeping for Two: a randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in pregnancy.

Study Objectives: Insomnia and sleep problems are common in pregnancy and have potentially negative impacts on both parental and infant health. This study examined the Sleeping for Two adaptation of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) in pregnancy.

Methods: A parallel (1:1) randomized controlled trial evaluated CBT-I ( = 32) compared to a treatment as usual waitlist ( = 32) among pregnant individuals from Alberta, Canada experiencing insomnia.

Sleeping for two: A randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBTI) delivered in pregnancy and secondary impacts on symptoms of postpartum depression.

Background: Insomnia in pregnancy is common and highly comorbid with depression.

Objective: To investigate if: 1) depressive symptoms decrease after cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBTI) delivered in pregnancy, and 2) changes in insomnia symptoms represent a mechanism linking CBT-I treatment and reduced symptoms of postpartum depression.

Methods: A two-arm, single-blind, parallel groups randomized controlled trial (RCT) design was used to evaluate the impact of a 5-week CBT-I intervention adapted for pregnant people with insomnia (N = 62).

Digital Parenting Interventions for Fathers of Infants From Conception to the Age of 12 Months: Systematic Review of Mixed Methods Studies.

Background: Digital interventions help address barriers to traditional health care services. Fathers play an important parenting role in their families, and their involvement is beneficial for family well-being. Although digital interventions are a promising avenue to facilitate father involvement during the perinatal period, most are oriented toward maternal needs and do not address the unique needs of fathers.

Understanding patient characteristics and medication prescriptions in children with mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders referred to a sleep clinic-A quality improvement/quality assurance analysis.

Introduction: Motivated by challenges faced in outpatient sleep services for mental health and neurodevelopmental disorders (MHNDD) during the COVID-19 clinical shutdown, a pan-Canadian/international working group of clinicians and social scientists developed a concept for capturing challenging sleep and wake behaviours already at the referral stage in the community setting.

Methods: In a quality improvement/quality assurance (QIQA) project, a visual logic model was the framework for identifying the multiple causes and possible interventions for sleep disturbances. Intake forms informed clinicians about situational experiences, goals/concerns, in addition to the questions from the Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children (SDSC), the ADHD Rating Scale-IV and medication history.

Parental Perceptions of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Sleep of Children With Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Introduction: Little is known about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sleep in schoolaged children with neurodevelopmental disorders. This study aimed to (1) determine and describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and (2) identify and describe contributing factors.

Method: Parents of children with neurodevelopmental disorders and insomnia symptoms (n = 100) were surveyed to determine if their child's sleep had changed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Top 10 (plus 1) research priorities for expectant families and those with children to age 24 months in Alberta, Canada: results from the Family Research Agenda Initiative Setting (FRAISE) priority setting partnership project.

Objective: The study objective was to identify the top 10 research priorities for expectant parents and caregivers of children up to age 24 months.

Design: A priority setting partnership using a modified James Lind Alliance approach was implemented. First, a core steering committee was formed, consisting of 17 parents, clinicians and community agency representatives.

Using wearable and mobile technology to measure and promote healthy sleep behaviors in adolescents: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to map the evidence related to how consumer-targeted wearable and mobile technology is being used to measure and/or promote sleep among adolescents.

Introduction: Sleep is a key component of physical and mental health and is required for healthy development in adolescence. Efforts to improve insufficient and poor-quality sleep among adolescents have resulted in limited and temporary enhancements in sleep habits.

Children's Sleep During COVID-19: How Sleep Influences Surviving and Thriving in Families.

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to disrupt the lives of families and may have implications for children with existing sleep problems. As such, we aimed to: (1) characterize sleep changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in children who had previously been identified as having sleep problems, (2) identify factors contributing to sleep changes due to COVID-19 safety measures, and (3) understand parents' and children's needs to support sleep during the pandemic.

Methods: Eighty-five Canadian parents with children aged 4-14 years participated in this explanatory sequential, mixed-methods study using an online survey of children's and parents' sleep, with a subset of 16 parents, selected based on changes in their children's sleep, participating in semi-structured interviews.

Effect of Play2Sleep on mother-reported and father-reported infant sleep: a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study of a randomized controlled trial.

Study Objectives: This study evaluated the effect on infant sleep of a novel intervention (Play2Sleep) that combined infant sleep information with self-modeled video feedback on parent-infant interactions.

Methods: An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design consisting of a randomized controlled trial with 63 mother-father-infant triads randomized to Play2Sleep or comparison home visit interventions was used. We used repeated measures analysis of covariance to detect changes in infant night wakings, nocturnal wakefulness, and sleep durations and Wilcoxon signed rank test to evaluate changes in perception of infant sleep problems.

Sleeping for two: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia in pregnant women.

Background: Insomnia and sleep disturbances are common in pregnancy and have potentially significant consequences for both maternal and infant health. There is limited research examining the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) during pregnancy. With increased distress and limited access to services during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is also an unprecedented need for telehealth delivery of treatment programs for pregnant women.

Recruitment and retention of fathers with young children in early childhood health intervention research: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol.

Background: Fathers are under-represented in research and programs addressing early childhood health and development. Recruiting fathers into these interventions can be hampered for multiple reasons, including recruitment and retention strategies that are not tailored for fathers. The primary aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to determine the effectiveness of recruitment and retention strategies used to include fathers of children (from conception to age 36 months) in intervention studies.

Profiles and Predictors of Infant Sleep Problems Across the First Year.

Objective: To identify profiles and predictors of maternal-reported infant sleep problems across the first postnatal year.

Methods: Survey data examining maternal mental and physical health, intimate partner violence (IPV), and infant sleep problems and night waking were gathered from a cohort of 1,460 nulliparous women at 15 weeks' gestation and when their infants were 3, 6, 9, and 12 months old.

Results: Latent class analysis revealed 5 profiles of infant sleep problems, including those who had few problems (24.

Diversity in pediatric behavioral sleep intervention studies.

Studies designed to assess the efficacy of behavioral sleep interventions for infants and young children often report sleep improvements, but the generalization to children and families of diverse backgrounds is rarely assessed. The present study describes a systematic review of the racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity of behavioral sleep intervention studies for young children. Thirty-two behavioral sleep intervention studies (5474 children) were identified using PRISMA guidelines.

Study Protocol: Determining Research Priorities of Young Albertan Families (The Family Research Agenda Initiative Setting Project-FRAISE)-Participatory Action Research.

Pregnancy and childrearing can be an exciting and stressful time for new parents. The maternal-child health landscape has changed dramatically over the last few decades and research priorities need to address these rapid changes. There have been limited attempts to engage and collaborate with members of the public to develop research priorities for families who are expecting or parenting an infant to age 24 months.

A Proposed Nursing Theory: Infant Sleep and Development.

Although well positioned to work with families of young children, nurses do not yet have a theory that guides practice and research by relating infant sleep to child and family development. The authors of this paper describe a proposed theory that combines Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory of human development with the Barnard model of parent-child interaction to inform nursing practice and research related to infant sleep and optimizing child and family development. The theory focuses on sustainability of change in family processes and infant sleep, with a goal of optimizing family wellness as the proximal environment for child development.