Q2. What would help in the development of risk-reduction interventions?
The authors propose that differentiation between infant-care practices, parental behaviors, and cultural beliefs would assist in the development of risk-reduction interventions.
Q3. What is the effect of reducing health inequalities within wealthy nations?
The authors would also add that a consequence of reducing health inequalities within wealthy nations is that cultural behaviors associated with poverty become less important, and are subsequently more amenable to change.
Q4. What are the consequences of bed sharing?
Blanketrecommendations also have unanticipated consequences such as reduced breastfeeding, or adoption of more risky behaviors such as sleep-sharing on sofas.
Q5. What are the two main organizations that have advised against infants bed sharing?
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (Drago and Dannenberg 1999; Nakamura et al. 1999) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (2005) have both advised against infants bed-sharing.
Q6. What were the main factors that were used to determine the risk of SIDS?
Initial efforts to understand which infants were at greatest risk of SIDS focused upon socio-economic and intrinsic infant variables; SIDS was prevalent in circumstances of deprivation (Mitchell et al. 2000), amongst low birth-weight, and premature infants (McCormick 1985).
Q7. What was the relationship between early and late bed sharing?
Early bed-sharing was associated with greater maternal education and fewer indicators of deprivation; late bed-sharing was associated with less maternal education and higher deprivation.
Q8. What is the common cause of SIDS in the US?
In the US, African American, Alaskan Native, and Native American communities are disproportionately affected by SIDS (NICHD 2001), and recently a higher incidence of SIDS in child-care settings has been identified (Moon, et al. 2008).
Q9. What was the relationship between the two groups of bed-sharers?
The authors specifically examined bed and sofa-sharing in these two groups: Pakistani infants were significantly more likely to ever and regularly bed-share, ever breastfeed, and breastfeed for over 8 weeks, but less likely to ever sofa-share than White British infants.
Q10. What groups of mothers were more likely to bed-share?
In both groups breastfeeding dyads were more likely to bed-share, particularly White British mothers who breastfed for eight or more weeks (Ball et al. 2012).
Q11. What is the significance of McKenna’s work?
McKenna’s work generated tremendous popular and clinical interest, prompting epidemiologists to more closely examine infant sleep location in SIDS case-control studies.