Preventive Medicine
Volume 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 765-768
"Back to sleep": Parents compliance with the recommendation on the most appropriate sleeping position of infants, Haifa District, Israel, 2001 (Article)
Inbar Z. ,
Meibar R. ,
Shehada S. ,
Irena V. ,
Rubin L. ,
Rishpon S.*
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Haifa District Health Office, Ministry of Health, 15A Palyam Avenue, Haifa 31999, Israel
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Haifa District Health Office, Ministry of Health, 15A Palyam Avenue, Haifa 31999, Israel
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Haifa District Health Office, Ministry of Health, 15A Palyam Avenue, Haifa 31999, Israel
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Haifa District Health Office, Ministry of Health, 15A Palyam Avenue, Haifa 31999, Israel
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Haifa District Health Office, Ministry of Health, 15A Palyam Avenue, Haifa 31999, Israel, School of Public Health, Fac. Social Welf. and Hlth. Studs., University of Haifa, Israel
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Haifa District Health Office, Ministry of Health, 15A Palyam Avenue, Haifa 31999, Israel, School of Public Health, Fac. Social Welf. and Hlth. Studs., University of Haifa, Israel
Abstract
Background. In 1993, the Israel Ministry of Health issued a formal recommendation to avoid placing healthy infants to sleep in the prone position in order to prevent sudden infant death. The objective of the study was to study parents' compliance with this recommendation and to identify characteristics of noncompliant parents of infants aged less than 6 months old. Methods. The study population consisted of 1912 parents of infants aged 0-12 months who visited the Haifa District primary preventive health centers during the study week and answered the self-administered questionnaire. Results. 15.6% of infants younger than 1 year were placed to sleep in the prone position: 12.4% among infants younger than 3 months, and 17.6% among infants 3-6 months old. Surprisingly, multiple logistic regression analysis demonstrated that Israeli-born Jewish mothers were more likely to place their babies prone than Israeli-born Arab mothers or mothers born in the former Soviet Union who had immigrated to Israel after 1990. Conclusions. At-risk behaviors are usually associated with minority and immigrant populations. Culture specific and other possible reasons for our unusual findings are discussed. © 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-17844385307&doi=10.1016%2fj.ypmed.2004.09.020&partnerID=40&md5=13e299d1ad3dc21d818938659aaf6810
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.09.020
ISSN: 00917435
Cited by: 2
Original Language: English