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Safe Infant Sleep Practices: Parental Engagement, Education, and Behavior Change.

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Although the incidence of sudden unexpected infant death declined by nearly 50% in the 1990s, there has been little improvement in the past 15 years. Significant disparities in infant sleep… Click to show full abstract

Although the incidence of sudden unexpected infant death declined by nearly 50% in the 1990s, there has been little improvement in the past 15 years. Significant disparities in infant sleep practices and sleep-associated death exist, particularly by maternal race/ethnicity. This article provides a brief overview of recent observational and intervention studies related to infant sleep practices to describe the context and motivation for the population-based Study of Attitudes and Factors Effecting Infant Care (SAFE). [Pediatr Ann. 2017;46(8):e291-e296.].

Keywords: practices parental; sleep practices; safe infant; infant sleep

Journal Title: Pediatric annals
Year Published: 2017

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