[Parents have accepted the advice on how to prevent sudden infant death].
We have compared 430 healthy Swedish infants born between 1991 and 1995 with 599 healthy, six months old infants born in 2002, regarding the prevalence of risk factors for SIDS. Following the introduction of the campaign to reduce the risk of SIDS in Sweden in 1992, we could see a decrease in prone sleeping from 32% to 7% together with an increase in supine sleeping from 35% to 44%. Maternal smoking during pregnancy has gone down from 24% to 10%. The prevalence of breast feeding, already high in Sweden in the 90s, was largely unchanged, 69% at six months of age in 2002. This comparison shows that parents of small infants have accepted the advice on ways to reduce the risk of SIDS, and that information given at infant welfare clinics is still effective ten years later. Further improvements are possible by changing the side sleeping position to supine, and by decreasing tobacco smoking among pregnant mothers.
Alm
Bernt
B
Avdelningen för pediatrik, Göteborgs universitet. bernt.alm@medfak.gu.se
Wennergren
Göran
G
Erdes
Laslo
L
Möllborg
Per
P
Pettersson
Rolf
R
Aberg
Nils
N
Norvenius
S Gunnar
SG
D001942:Breast Feeding; D005260:Female; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016683:Supine Position; D013548:Sweden