| Nighttime parenting strategies and sleep-related risks to infants. | |
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PMID: 22818487 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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A large social science and public health literature addresses infant sleep safety, with implications for infant mortality in the context of accidental deaths and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). As part of risk reduction campaigns in the USA, parents are encouraged to place infants supine and to alter infant bedding and elements of the sleep environment, and are discouraged from allowing infants to sleep unsupervised, from bed-sharing either at all or under specific circumstances, or from sofa-sharing. These recommendations are based on findings from large-scale epidemiological studies that generate odds ratios or relative risk statistics for various practices; however, detailed behavioural data on nighttime parenting and infant sleep environments are limited. To address this issue, this paper presents and discusses the implications of four case studies based on overnight observations conducted with first-time mothers and their four-month old infants. These case studies were collected at the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at the University of Notre Dame USA between September 2002 and June 2004. Each case study provides a detailed description based on video analysis of sleep-related risks observed while mother-infant dyads spent the night in a sleep lab. The case studies provide examples of mothers engaged in the strategic management of nighttime parenting for whom sleep-related risks to infants arose as a result of these strategies. Although risk reduction guidelines focus on eliminating potentially risky infant sleep practices as if the probability of death from each were equal, the majority of instances in which these occur are unlikely to result in infant mortality. Therefore, we hypothesise that mothers assess potential costs and benefits within margins of risk which are not acknowledged by risk-reduction campaigns. Exploring why mothers might choose to manage sleep and nighttime parenting in ways that appear to increase potential risks to infants may help illuminate how risks occur for individual infants. |
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Authors:
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Lane E Volpe; Helen L Ball; James J McKenna |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2012-07-07 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Social science & medicine (1982) Volume: 79 ISSN: 1873-5347 ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Publication Date: 2013 Feb |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2013-01-28 Completed Date: 2013-04-08 Revised Date: 2013-04-16 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8303205 Medline TA: Soc Sci Med Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 92-100 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
Affiliation:
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Department of Anthropology, Parent-Infant Sleep Lab, Durham University, UK. l.e.volpe@durham.ac.uk |
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Adolescent Adult Female Humans Infant Infant Care / methods* Longitudinal Studies Male Mothers / psychology*, statistics & numerical data Multicenter Studies as Topic Parenting* Risk Factors Sleep* Time Factors Young Adult |
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R01 HD039456/HD/NICHD NIH HHS |
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