Hamburg SIDS prevention campaigns (Germany)
Germany never ran a national back-to-sleep campaign; local campaigns, monitored in Hamburg by repeated sentinel surveys in paediatric practices, pushed back sleeping and other risk-reduction advice.
- Years
- 1996–now
- Country
- Germany
- Topic
- Infant sleep
- Asks people to
- Substitute
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- Clinical settingPrint
- Audience
- ParentsParents in Hamburg
Evidence
ObservationalPositive
Hamburg SIDS fell from 0.9 to 0.1 per 1000 between 1996 and 2007; prone fell from 8.1% to 3.5% and side sleeping from 55% (1998) to 11% (2006). Nationally, prone sleeping fell from 37.6% to 8.7% (1991-95) without a campaign, but only to 32% among Turkish-origin families.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Hamburg local health and paediatric partners (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf researchers) State local government
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- Back to Sleep 1994–now
Sources
- Sperhake JP et al. Sentinel study on SIDS risk factors 1996-2006 in Hamburg. Int J Legal Med 2008 evaluation · 2008 · DOI 10.1007/s00414-008-0298-3 · PMID 19018550
- Schlaud M et al. Prone sleeping in Germany: two cross-sectional studies. Am J Epidemiol 1999 evaluation · 1999 · DOI 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009918 · PMID 10400554
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 and campaign name not identified; sponsor entry is a placeholder guess from affiliations, remove if a primary source disagrees. Useful as a 'no national campaign' comparison.
Record cases/de-hamburg-sids-prevention.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign