title: Infant sleep position: A telephone survey of inner-city parents of color.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess what positions parents were placing their infants to sleep and their opinion about sleep positioning.
  
  
  METHODS
  A prospective telephone survey of parents of 2-month-old infants with repeated measures at 4 months that began during the second wave of the Back to Sleep campaign in 1994.
  
  
  METHODS
  African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and American Indian parents from inner cities in the north central United States.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Preference for prone positioning existed at both 2 and 4 months (over 40%). Twenty-four percent of parents disagreed with the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding supine or lateral positioning.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although prone sleep positioning has decreased over the past 5 years, many inner-city parents of color prefer this over supine. The Back to Sleep campaign appears effective in changing attitudes and medical personnel appear influential in promoting risk reductions associated with sudden infant death syndrome. More efforts are clearly needed to convince parents who disagree with and resist recommendations.sleep, infants, SIDS, African-Americans, Back to Sleep (campaign).
authors.affiliation: Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA. carl.johnson@cmich.edu
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Borkowski
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Hunter
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Zunker
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Waskiewicz
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: N W
authors.initials: NW
authors.lastname: Hether
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Coletta
mesh_terms: D005006:Ethnicity; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care; D011187:Posture; D012890:Sleep; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population