Delivering safe sleep and breastfeeding education to pregnant and new mothers through private Facebook groups: Study protocol for a 4-armed randomized controlled trial

Authors

• Rebecca F Carlin, Columbia University
• Margaret G Parker, University of Massachusetts
• Ann L Kellams, University of Virginia
• Fern R Hauck, University of Virginia
• Stephen Kerr, Boston University
• Benjamin T Cornwell, Cornell University
• Marc T Kiviniemi, University of Kentucky
• Nicole Geller, Boston University
• Katherine E Boguszewski, University of Virginia
• Michael J Corwin, Boston University
• Eve R Colson, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Rachel Y Moon, University of Virginia

Journal

BMC pediatrics

Publication Date

4-22-2026

Volume

26

Issue

1

First Page

528

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1186/s12887-026-06900-9

Rights and Permissions

Carlin, R.F., Parker, M.G., Kellams, A.L. et al. Delivering safe sleep and breastfeeding education to pregnant and new mothers through private Facebook groups: study protocol for a 4-armed randomized controlled trial. BMC Pediatr 26, 528 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-026-06900-9 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Recommended Citation

Carlin, Rebecca F; Parker, Margaret G; Kellams, Ann L; Hauck, Fern R; Kerr, Stephen; Cornwell, Benjamin T; Kiviniemi, Marc T; Geller, Nicole; Boguszewski, Katherine E; Corwin, Michael J; Colson, Eve R; and Moon, Rachel Y, "Delivering safe sleep and breastfeeding education to pregnant and new mothers through private Facebook groups: Study protocol for a 4-armed randomized controlled trial." BMC pediatrics. 26, 1. 528 (2026).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/7341

Department

ICTS (Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences)

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