Can modifications to the bedroom environment improve the sleep of new parents? Two randomized controlled trials

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-19

  Lee, Kathryn A ^a   Gay, Caryl L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The UCSF Department of Family Health Care Nursing   (United States)

Author keywords

Actigraphy; Intervention studies; Parents; Postpartum; Sleep

Indexed keywords

ACTIMETRY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FEMALE; FURNITURE; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NOISE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PARENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DISORDER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACTIGRAPHY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; LIGHTING; MALE; NOISE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PARENTS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; ROOMING-IN CARE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 78751520248     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20413     Document Type: Article

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