Information campaign on infant sleep position (France, 1994)
French campaign in October 1994 aimed at health personnel, telling them to advise parents against prone sleeping. In four departments prone sleeping at 2.5 months fell from 24.5% to 7.2% within a year and postneonatal SIDS from 1.1 to 0.7 per 1,000 births.
- Years
- 1994–now
- Country
- France
- Topic
- Infant sleep
- Asks people to
- Substitute
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- Clinical setting
- Audience
- CliniciansParentsHealth personnel, who then advised parents
Evidence
ObservationalPositive
Population survey of mothers of infants born March 1994 vs March 1995: prone sleeping fell from 6.8% to 1.1% at 5 days and 24.5% to 7.2% at 2.5 months; duvet use fell; bed sharing, pillows, breastfeeding and smoking did not change. Postneonatal SIDS fell from 1.1 to 0.7 per 1,000 live births.
Sponsor (who paid)
- French health authorities Foreign government, lead
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- Back to Sleep 1994–now
Sources
- [Information campaign on child care practices: measure of the effects on sleep position and sudden infant death syndrome]. evaluation · 1998 · PMID 9592854
Research notes
Found through OpenAlex (October 2026 sleep pass, see docs/sleep-campaigns-openalex.md). Findings paraphrased from abstracts; check the paper before quoting a number.
Record cases/france-sids-information-campaign-1994.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign