Improving Infant Sleep Safety Through a Comprehensive Hospital-Based Program

2015/02/09 by Michael H. Goodstein, Theodore Bell, Scott D. Krugman

paper · doi:10.1177/0009922814566928

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Abstract

We evaluated a comprehensive hospital-based infant safe sleep education program on parental education and safe sleep behaviors in the home using a cross-sectional survey of new parents at hospital discharge (HD) and 4-month follow-up (F/U). Knowledge and practices of infant safe sleep were compared to the National Infant Sleep Position Study benchmark. There were 1092 HD and 490 F/U surveys. Supine sleep knowledge was 99.8% at HD; 94.8% of families planned to always use this position. At F/U, 97.3% retained supine knowledge, and 84.9% maintained this position exclusively ( P

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