background:infant mortality is often used as a standard measure of a population’s health. until cause of sudden infant death syndrome is unknown (sids), the best strategy to decrease sids, is programming to decrease facing with risk factors. the aim of this study was to find the sids risk factors among families during their child care in iran. the study is the first in iran to examine the risk ...

introduction  sudden infant death syndrome (sids) is a disease which causes unexpected death of infants aged less than 1 year. given the undeniable role of parents in the presence or absence of sids risk factors, the present study aimed to studythe prevalence and the relationship between characteristics and conditions of parent’s infants with sids risk factors. materials and methods  in this cr...

Background:Infant mortality is often used as a standard measure of a population’s health. Until cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is unknown (SIDS), the best strategy to decrease SIDS, is programming to decrease facing with risk factors. The aim of this study was to find the SIDS risk factors among families during their child care in Iran. The study is the first in Iran to examine the risk ...

OBJECTIVE To resolve uncertainty as to the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) associated with sleeping in bed with your baby if neither parent smokes and the baby is breastfed. DESIGN Bed sharing was defined as sleeping with a baby in the parents' bed; room sharing as baby sleeping in the parents' room. Frequency of bed sharing during last sleep was compared between babies who died o...

Mother-infant bed sharing, compared with the solitary sleeping condition, has recently been associated with several physiological and behavioral effects. Because the physiological effects of bed sharing may also include respiratory changes, we compared the incidence of central and obstructive apneas and periodic breathing in bed-sharing and solitary sleeping infants. Twenty routinely bed-sharin...

DURING THE PAST 2 DECADES, SLEEP PRACTICES AND SLEEP PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN HAVE RECEIVED MORE ATTENTION FROM PARENTS AND MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS BECAUSE SLEEP PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN ARE NOW RECOGNIZED TO BE VERY COMMON (estimated prevalence 10% 45%),1-6 often persist over several years,7-9 and can exert adverse effects on cognitive, behavior, emotional, and even physical development.1 Sleep practice...

OBJECTIVE The Alaska Division of Public Health has stated that infants may safely share a bed for sleeping if this occurs with a nonsmoking, unimpaired caregiver on a standard, adult, non-water mattress. Because this policy is contrary to recent national recommendations that discourage any bed sharing, we examined 13 years of Alaskan infant deaths that occurred while bed sharing to assess the c...

OBJECTIVES To investigate why sharing the bed with an infant is a not consistent risk factor for the sudden infant death syndrome in ethnic subgroups in New Zealand and to see if the risk of sudden infant death associated with this practice is related to other factors, particularly maternal smoking and alcohol consumption. DESIGN Nationwide case-control study. SETTING Region of New Zealand ...