title: Infant sleep location: associated maternal and infant characteristics with sudden infant death syndrome prevention recommendations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify factors associated with infant sleep location.
  
  
  METHODS
  Demographic information and infant care practices were assessed for 708 mothers of infants ages 0 to 8 months at Women, Infants and Children centers. Generalized linear latent mixed models were constructed for the outcome, sleeping arrangement last night (room-sharing without bed-sharing versus bed-sharing, and room-sharing without bed-sharing versus sleeping in separate rooms).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two-thirds of the mothers were African-American. A total of 48.6% mothers room-shared without bed-sharing, 32.5% bed-shared, and 18.9% slept in separate rooms. Compared with infants who slept in separate rooms, infants who room-shared without bed-sharing were more likely to be Hispanic (odds ratio [OR], 2.58, 95% CI 1.11-5.98) and younger (3.66- and 1.74-times more likely for infants 0-1 month old and 2-3 months old, respectively, as compared with older infants). Compared with infants who bed-shared, infants who room-shared without bed-sharing were more likely to be 0 to 1 month old (OR, 1.57; 95% CI, 1.05-2.35) and less likely to be African-American (OR, 0.43; 95% CI, 0.26-0.70) or have a teenage mother (OR, 0.37; 95% CI, 0.23-0.58).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Approximately one-third of mothers and infants bed-share, despite increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The factors associated with bed-sharing are also associated with SIDS, likely rendering infants with these characteristics at high risk for SIDS.
authors.affiliation: Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA. lfu@cnmc.org
authors.forename: Linda Y
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Eve R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Colson
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Corwin
authors.forename: Rachel Y
authors.initials: RY
authors.lastname: Moon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001513:Beds / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012890:Sleep; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*