Chicago SIDS Risk Reduction Education Program for Black communities
Comprehensive, ethnically tailored SIDS risk reduction programme implemented over 24 months in Chicago communities that were at least 86% Black, evaluated by telephone surveys before and after.
- Years
- 1999–2001
- Country
- United States
- Topic
- Infant sleep
- Asks people to
- Substitute
- Strategy
- Cultural tailoringTrusted messenger
- Channel
- Clinical settingInterpersonal
- Audience
- ParentsBlack mothers in high-SIDS Chicago communities
Evidence
ObservationalMixed
Night prone sleeping (25% among Black mothers) fell but not significantly; fewer infants were put on adult beds or sofas; soft bedding use rose among Black families; direct instruction by a nurse or doctor predicted safe behavior, but seeing back sleeping in hospital did not.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Evaluation team (Rasinski et al.); implementing sponsor not confirmed Academic, evaluator
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- Back to Sleep 1994–now
Sources
- Rasinski KA et al. Effect of a SIDS risk reduction education program in primarily black urban communities. Pediatrics 2003 evaluation · 2003 · DOI 10.1542/peds.111.4.e347 · PMID 12671150
Research notes
Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Sponsor not in abstract (possibly SIDS of Illinois / Chicago Department of Public Health; verify).
Record cases/chicago-sids-risk-reduction-black-communities.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign