Sentence examples for safe sleep practices from inspiring English sources

Following recommended safe sleep practices can reduce the risk of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID).

These rates are much higher than those for the group who received only the in-hospital intervention on safe sleep practices and are also higher than rates achieved by interventions tested in previous research.

The first — a complementary program where nurses taught new parents about safe sleep practices for infants while still in the hospital — did not alone have a significant effect on parents' adherence to recommended safe sleep habits.

Mother's latest little helper is already in her pocket: A new educational intervention delivered in the form of texts and emails has been found to increase adherence to safe sleep practices for infants, concluded researchers at the Yale, University of Virginia, and Boston University schools of medicine in a joint study published July 25 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The recommended safe sleep practices this study include: placing babies on their backs, not on their sides or stomachs; keeping them in the room with the mother but not in the same bed; avoiding soft bedding that could strangle or suffocate them; and using pacifiers, which has been shown to reduce SIDS risk.

Inconsistent adherence to safe sleep practices was reported.

Lack of knowledge of best safe sleep practice was apparent and thus a major barrier.

These findings identified WIC mothers for targeted intervention to reduce infant mortality and led investigators to determine that the WIC program, with its existing infrastructure, is a potential vehicle for closing the disparity gap in reported infant safe sleep practice.

But remember, a breathable mattress is not an excuse to forget about other safe-sleep practices.

According to the study, mobile videos for educating new parents on safe infant sleep practices achieved rates of 92.5% for back sleeping and 85.9% for room-sharing without bed-sharing, two of the critical steps towards SUID reduction.

Using the HBM framework, development of a coding tree resulted in the identification of five major themes of male caregiver's knowledge and influences of infant safe sleep: (1) sleep practices and behaviors, (2) knowledge of infant safe sleep, (3) barriers and (4) facilitators to practicing infant safe sleep, and (5) infant sleep safety messaging suggestions.