Trial reportJournal of community health2017
Health Messaging and African-American Infant Sleep Location: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in Journal of community health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01361880 (Randomized Messaging Trial to Reduce African-American Infant Mortality), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Randomized Messaging Trial to Reduce African-American Infant Mortality
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Interventions to Improve Safer Sleep Practices in Families With Children Considered to Be at Increased Risk for Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Effects of a Responsive Parenting Intervention Among Black Families on Infant Sleep: A Secondary Analysis of the Sleep SAAF Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Improving compliance with safe sleep practices among Black/African American infants discharged from a level III NICU: a quality improvement initiative.BMJ open quality · 2025Article
- Feasibility and Acceptability of a Tailored Infant Safe Sleep Coaching Intervention for African American Families.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Factors Associated with Safe Infant Sleep Practices in Saudi Arabia.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2021Article
- Considerations in Safe to Sleep® messaging: Learning from African-American mothers.Journal for specialists in pediatric nursing : JSPN · 2020Article
- Evaluation of a Crib Distribution and Safe Sleep Educational Program to Reduce Risk of Sleep-Related Infant Death.Journal of community health · 2018Article
- Babies in boxes and the missing links on safe sleep: Human evolution and cultural revolution.Maternal & child nutrition · 2018Review
- Prevention Messages in Parent-Infant Bed-Sharing: Message Source, Credibility, and Effectiveness.Global pediatric health · 2017Article
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Abstract
Infant-parent bedsharing increases the risk of SIDS and other sleep-related deaths. Despite AAP recommendations to avoid bedsharing, public health efforts have been unsuccessful in changing behaviors. African-American infants are more than twice as likely to die from SIDS and other sleep-related deaths, and are also twice as likely to bedshare with their parents. Further, African-American parents have a high degree of self-efficacy with regards to preventing infant suffocation, but low self-efficacy with regards to SIDS risk reduction. It is unclear whether messages emphasizing suffocation prevention will decrease bedsharing. To evaluate the impact of specific health messages on African-American parental decisions regarding infant sleep location. We conducted a randomized, controlled trial of African-American mothers of infants. The control group received standard messaging emphasizing AAP-recommended safe sleep practices, including avoidance of bedsharing, for the purposes of SIDS risk reduction. The intervention group received enhanced messaging emphasizing safe sleep practices, including avoidance of bedsharing, for both SIDS risk reduction and suffocation prevention. Participants completed interviews at 2-3 weeks, 2-3 months, and 5-6 months after the infant's birth. 1194 mothers were enrolled in the study, and 637 completed all interviews. Bedsharing, both usually (aOR 1.005 [95 % CI 1.003, 1.006]) and last night (aOR 1.004 [95 % CI 1.002, 1.007]) increased slightly but statistically significantly with infant age (p < 0.001). Receipt of the enhanced message did not impact on sleep location. Maternal belief that bedsharing increased the risk of SIDS or suffocation declined over 6 months (p < 0.001) and did not differ by group assignment. African-American mothers who received an enhanced message about SIDS risk reduction and suffocation prevention were no less likely to bedshare with their infants. CLINICAL TRIALS REGISTRATION: Clinical Trials.gov identifier NCT01361880.
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