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. 2013 Mar 20;346:f1164. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f1164

Table 2.

 Models for outcomes related to sleep, fatigue, subjective sleep disturbance, and postpartum depression in primiparous women and their infants randomised to sleep intervention or usual care and in all women over time

Sleep intervention −usual care Week 12−week 6 Compared with baseline
Difference/rate ratio (95% CI) Standard error, P value Difference/rate ratio (95% CI) Standard error, P value Regression coefficient for baseline Standard error, P value
Nocturnal sleep, maternal 5.97* (−7.55 to 19.5) 6.90, 0.39 39.3* (32.1 to 46.5) 3.68, <0.001
Longest stretch of nocturnal sleep, infant −0.18*(−16.1 to 15.8) 8.13 , 0.98 59.5* (48.0 to 71.0) 5.87, <0.001
Fatigue VAS 3.64* (−0.72 to 8.00) 2.23, 0.10 −8.52* (−10.87 to −6.17) 1.20, <0.001
EPDS score 0.21* (−0.62 to 1.04) 0.42, 0.62 −0.81* (−1.31 to −0.32) 0.25, 0.001 0.40 (0.29 to 0.51) 0.06, <0.001
GSDS score 1.11* (−2.64 to 4.86) 1.91, 0.56 −4.90* (−6.95 to −2.85) 1.05, <0.001 0.29 (0.18 to 0.40) 0.06, <0.001
Night awakenings, maternal −0.012† (−0.12 to 0.10) 0.056, 0.83 0.019†(−0.039 to 0.077) 0.03, 0.53
Night awakenings, infant 0.036† (−0.043 to 0.12) 0.040, 0.37 −0.25† (−0.31 to −0.19) 0.031, <0.001 ——

Fatigue VAS=fatigue visual analogue scale; EPDS=Edinburgh postnatal depression scale; GSDS=general sleep disturbance scale. Models for 12 weeks minus 6 weeks and comparison with baseline include both sleep intervention and usual care participants

*Mean difference.

†Log rate ratio.