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ArticleMaternal and child health journal2022

Variations in Safe Sleep Practices and Beliefs: Knowledge is not Enough.

Mary Beth Howard, Lenore R Jarvis, Gia M Badolato, Benjamin T Parrish, Katie A Donnelly

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Article in Maternal and child health journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Mary Beth HowardDivision of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD, USA. mhowar50@jhmi.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2654-5442
Lenore R JarvisEmergency Medicine and Trauma Services, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.
Gia M BadolatoEmergency Medicine and Trauma Services, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.
Benjamin T ParrishEmergency Medicine and Trauma Services, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.
Katie A DonnellyEmergency Medicine and Trauma Services, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA.

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objectivesSleep-related infant deaths in the District of Columbia (DC) varies, with rates in certain geographical areas three times higher than DC and seven times higher than the national average. We sought to understand differences in infant sleep knowledge, beliefs, and practices between families in high-risk infant mortality and low-risk infant mortality areas in DC.

methodsCaregivers of infants presenting to the emergency department were surveyed. The associations between location and safe sleep knowledge, beliefs, and practices were analyzed.

resultsTwo hundred and eighty-four caregivers were surveyed; 105 (37%) were from the high-risk infant mortality area. The majority (68%) of caregivers reported placing their infant to sleep on their backs, sleeping in a crib, bassinet, or pack and play (72%), and were familiar with the phrase "safe sleep" (72%). Caregivers from the high-risk infant mortality area were more likely to report that their infants sleep in homes other than their own (aOR 1.53; 95% CI 1.23, 2.81) and other people took care of their infants while sleeping (aOR 1.76; 95% CI 1.17, 3.19), adjusting for race/ethnicity, education, marital status, and help with childcare. No differences in safe sleep knowledge, beliefs, and practices were present. CONCLUSIONS FOR PRACTICE: Infants from the high-risk infant mortality area were more likely to sleep in homes other than their own and have other caretakers while sleeping. Lack of differences in caregiver awareness of safe sleep recommendation or practices suggests effective safe sleep messaging. Outreach to other caregivers and study of unmet barriers is needed.

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Infant EquipmentSudden Infant DeathChildHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansInfantInfant CareSleepSupine PositionHealth disparitiesInfant mortalitySafe sleepSudden infant death syndrome

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