Effect of a consultation teaching behaviour modification on sleep performance in infants: a randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a behaviour modification program, taught to parents in a single visit to a trained nurse, in improving sleep performance in newborn infants, Australia.

Design: Randomised controlled trial.

Setting And Participants: 268 families with normal newborn infants in the community, recruited between October 1996 and March 1997 from birth notices published in a South Australian daily newspaper.