Baby Bathe - Control Group

We would like you to:

• Bathe your baby once a week or less until your baby is six months of age.
• Record every time you bathe your baby using the study app.
• Complete monthly questionnaires. This should take less than 5 minutes.
• When your baby is 6 months old, we will invite you to bring your baby to St George’s for a skin assessment and to complete a questionnaire. The visit will take 20-30 minutes.

Please use the study app to tell us when you bathe your baby and to complete the monthly questionnaires. If you need to contact us, please do so via the app.

• When you join the study, we will send you a personalised link. Click on the link to install the study app on your phone. You must allow notifications as we will use these to contact you.
• If a relative or carer is likely to be bathing the baby without you, please forward them the personalised link and ask them to install the app as you have done. Don’t worry if you both tell us about the same bath as we will be able to remove duplicate entries. The data is collected centrally and you will not be able to see the data your partner, or your baby’s grandparents entered.
• If you feel like you have to enter your passcode too often, you can turn this off in the app by selecting the menu on the top left, then ‘passcode’ and slide the blue button to ‘off’
• We have a guide for the app which is available to download above.
• You may get a call from the study team to ask if you need help using the app.

We will contact you via email or the study app. Please let us know if you change your contact details.  If we cannot contact you, we may contact the friend/relative you told us about, or your GP (unless you ask us not to), to check if you have changed contact details and/or to ask about your child’s skin health.

They can help in many ways:

• Encouraging and supporting each other to remember to record when you bathe your baby and to help recording bathing information in the study app.