Co-sleeping versus sleep training: publications with advice for parents

Introduction: Sleep patterns in infants is one of the main issues regarding children upbringing and has different positions in publications.Objective: To analyze 63 publications with parenting advice on sleep in infants to subsequently characterize them in terms of their position on co-sleeping and sleep training.Materials and methods: Publications issued in the past two decades, available for purchase and/or reference in Chile. 63 publications, including parenting advice books and 32 web sites, were identified.Results: 65% of the analyzed publications favored some form co-sleeping; 76% mentioned sleep training, expressing a tendency to defend and/or accept the strategy known as ‘positive routines’ rather than ‘cry it out methods’.Conclusions: Chilean parents are confronted with contradictory information. The current debate on the regulation of infant sleep is also seen in Ibero-America, although expert opinion differs from that found in Anglo-Saxon samples.

• Autores: Fuentes-Vega, Sandra; Castro, Pablo Javier; Van der Veer, René
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/65068
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/65068; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/66091/
• Palabra clave: 61 Ciencias médicas; Medicina / Medicine and health; Sleep; Parenting; Publications; Latin America; Chile; Spain.; Sleep; Parenting; Publications; Latin America; Chile; Spain.
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional