Mobile Reminders Improve Adherence to Infant Safe Sleep Practices

Sending mothers educational messages and videos via text and email for the first few months after birth was effective.

The Back-to-Sleep campaign has been effective in reducing the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); however, as many as 3500 infants still die from SIDS annually. To determine effective interventions to encourage parent adherence to infant safe sleeping practices, researchers conducted a randomized clinical trial involving over 1200 mothers of healthy term babies born in one of 16 U.S. hospitals.

Hospitals, clustered into four groups, were randomized to deliver a nursing quality improvement (NQI) intervention to mothers on either safe sleeping practices or breastfeeding (control) during postpartum hospitalization and a mobile health messaging intervention on either safe sleeping practices or breastfeeding (control). In the mobile…

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F. Bruder Stapleton, MD

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F. Bruder Stapleton, MD

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Consultant/Advisory BoardCareer Physician

Editorial BoardsUpToDate

Leadership Positions in Professional SocietiesAmerican Society of Pediatric Nephrology Foundation (Chair)

Mobile Reminders Improve Adherence to Infant Safe Sleep Practices

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