SynthesisBMJ open2016
Effectiveness of the 'Back-to-Sleep' campaigns among healthcare professionals in the past 20 years: a systematic review.
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- Assessing the Evidence for Nonobstetric Risk Factors for Deformational Plagiocephaly: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Interactive journal of medical research · 2024Review
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): State of the Art and Future Directions.International journal of medical sciences · 2024Review
- Community-based approaches to infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Vital Signs for Pediatric Health: Infant Mortality.NAM perspectives · 2023Review
- Epidemiology of sudden infant death syndrome in Mexico, 2005-2020.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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- Pediatric Health Care Provider Perspectives on Injury Prevention Counseling in Acute and Primary Care Settings.Clinical pediatrics · 2020Article
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: What Healthcare Professionals and Parents Know About How to Prevent it in Portugal.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2020Article
- Hippocampal abnormalities and seizures: a 16-year single center review of sudden unexpected death in childhood, sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and SIDS.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2020Article
- Expansion of a multi-pronged safe sleep quality improvement initiative to three children's hospital campuses.Injury epidemiology · 2020Article
- As easy as ABC: evaluation of safe sleep initiative on safe sleep compliance in a freestanding pediatric hospital.Injury epidemiology · 2019Article
- Paediatricians' Practice About SUDDEN Infant Death Syndrome in Catalonia, Spain.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectivesFrom the late 1980s 'Back-to-Sleep' (BTS) campaigns were run in most developed countries to increase awareness of the supine position's protective effect against sleep-related infant deaths. Once the media awareness-raising action associated with these campaigns ended, healthcare professionals' role became crucial. The goal of this paper is to determine if healthcare professionals' knowledge and parent advice consistent with evidence-based infant sleep recommendations have changed over the past 20 years.
settingAll studies investigating healthcare professionals' knowledge and/or advice to parents were included in a systematic review. The search was performed in PubMed and in MEDLINE, and 21 studies were identified.
resultsThe correctness of healthcare professionals' knowledge and parent advice about the supine sleeping position increased over the past 20 years. However, the percentage of those aware that parents should avoid putting their babies to sleep in a prone position is decreasing over time: from about 97% in the 1990s to about 90% at the end of the 2000s.
conclusionsThe effectiveness of the BTS campaigns in publicising the benefits of the supine position is confirmed by this paper. More and more healthcare professionals know that it is the best position to reduce the risk of sleep-related deaths and they recommend it exclusively. However, the decrease in the knowledge about non-prone positions suggests that the campaigns may not have focused enough on the dangers of the prone position.
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