Infant Safe Sleep Promotion: Increasing Capacity of Child Protective Services Employees
| Autor: | Carolyn R. Ahlers-Schmidt, Stephanie Kuhlmann, Christy Schunn, Martha Henao, Cherie Sage, María Luisa Montánchez Torres, Ashley M. Hervey |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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sudden infant death syndrome
medicine.medical_specialty 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject education Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Promotion (rank) 030225 pediatrics medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Child Cause of death media_common business.industry Child Protective Services Infant Care sleep-related infant death Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infant Kansas Sudden infant death syndrome United States Infant mortality Family medicine Sleep education Medicine Sleep (system call) Sleep business Sudden Infant Death |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 18 Issue 8 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 4227, p 4227 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1660-4601 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph18084227 |
| Popis: | Sleep-related infant deaths, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), are the number one cause of death in infants between 28 days and one year of life. Nearly half of families experiencing a sleep-related infant death in Kansas were involved with the Department of Children and Families Child Protective Services (CPS), making CPS staff a priority for safe sleep training. This study assessed the impact of the two-day Kansas Infant Death and SIDS (KIDS) Network Safe Sleep Instructor (SSI) train-the-trainer program on CPS staffs’ knowledge of the American Academy of Pediatrics safe sleep recommendations. Training was attended by 43 participants, 27 (63%) of whom were employed by CPS. CPS staff had significantly lower baseline knowledge on the 10-item pretest (t = 3.33, p = 0.002), but both CPS and other attendees showed significant improvement by posttest (t = 8.53, p < 0.001 and t = 4.44, p < 0.001, respectively). Following SSI certification, CPS SSIs provided more safe sleep training to professionals than other SSIs (1051 vs. 165, respectively), and both groups of SSIs were able to significantly increase the knowledge of their trainees. Overall, the KIDS Network SSI training was successful. The innovative partnership with CPS allowed for provision of training to a group not historically targeted for safe sleep education. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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