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Postnatal classes on prevention of sleeplessness in young children
Author(s) -
HEWITT KEVIN,
GALBRAITH LAURA
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1987.tb00557.x
Subject(s) - evening , developmental psychology , psychology , appeal , test (biology) , adaptation (eye) , clinical psychology , medicine , paleontology , physics , astronomy , neuroscience , political science , law , biology
Summary Parents of young babies attended evening classes on prevention of sleeping problems in pre‐school children. The aim was to test the consumer‐appeal of this preventative approach. Content focused on individual behavioural differences in babies as well as adaptation of parenting strategies to avoid some of the common pitfalls in the management of sleep‐related behaviours. Parents' views were obtained and were favourable. Results are discussed in terms of the timing and format of similar prevention programmes.