Community-based approaches to infant safe sleep and breastfeeding promotion: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the U.S., sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUID) due to accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed (ASSB) are increasing, with disparities by race/ethnicity. While breastfeeding is a protective factor against infant mortality, racial/ethnic disparities are present in its uptake, and motivations to breastfeed are also often coupled with non-recommended infant sleep practices that are associated with infant sleep deaths. Combining infant safe sleep (ISS) and breastfeeding promotion on the community level presents opportunities to address racial/ethnic disparities and associated socioeconomic, cultural, and psychosocial influences.

Methods

We completed a descriptive qualitative hermeneutical phenomenology using thematic analysis of focus group data. We examin

SUBMITTER: Menon M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9989577 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature