Campaign against prone infant sleeping (Navarra)
Campaign launched in March 1993 in the Spanish region of Navarra, where 86.5% of babies slept on their front, advising against prone sleeping from birth to six months. Prone sleeping fell to 38% and SIDS deaths from about 6 a year to 2.
- Years
- 1993–now
- Country
- Spain
- Topic
- Infant sleep
- Asks people to
- Substitute
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- Clinical settingPrint
- Audience
- Parents
Evidence
ObservationalPositive
Prone sleeping fell from 86.5% (births 1992-93) to 38.3% (births 1993-94); supine rose from 5.6% to 46%. SIDS deaths fell from a mean of 6.3 a year (1985-93) to 2 in 1994.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Navarra regional health service Foreign government, lead
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- Back to Sleep 1994–now
Sources
- [Change of position and the decrease in the cases of sudden infant death syndrome in Navarra]. evaluation · 1996 · PMID 8967646
Research notes
Sponsor inferred; confirm. 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/navarra-prone-sleep-campaign.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign