Awareness of infant safe sleep messages and associated care practices: findings from an Australian cohort of families with young infants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate primary infant caregiver awareness of the current national public health safe sleep messages and the associations of awareness with care practices.

Design and setting

A cross-sectional survey in Queensland, Australia. All families with live babies birthed during April-May 2017 were eligible. Questionnaires were distributed when infants were approximately 3 months old.

Participants

Of the 10 200 eligible families, 3341 (33%) primary caregivers participated.

Main outcome measures

Participants were asked: to recall key safe sleeping messages they were aware of (unprompted); questions about their infant care practices; and to select the current, national six safe sleeping messages (prompted multi-choice).

Results

Overall, the majorit

SUBMITTER: Cole R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7908297 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature