Citation

Moon RY, Hauck FR, Colson ER. Curr. Pediatr. Rev. 2015; 12(1): 67-75.

Affiliation

Division of General Pediatrics and Community Health Children's National Medical Center 111 Michigan Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20010. rmoon@cnmc.org.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Bentham Science Publishers)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

26496723

Abstract

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related infant deaths, such as accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed and ill-defined deaths, account for >4000 deaths annually in the USA. Evidence-based recommendations for reducing the risk of sleep-related deaths have been published, but some caregivers resist adoption of these recommendations. Multiple interventions to change infant sleep-related practices of parents and professionals have been implemented. In this review, we will discuss illustrative examples of safe infant sleep interventions and evidence of their effectiveness. Facilitators of and barriers to change, as well as the limitations of the data currently available for these interventions, will be considered.

Language: en