SIDS information campaign (Tyrol)
Information campaign on modifiable SIDS risks launched in April 1994 across the Austrian state of Tyrol, with follow-up of nearly every newborn. SIDS fell from 1.83 to 0.4 per 1,000 live births and prone sleeping from 54% to 5%.
- Years
- 1994–now
- Country
- Austria
- Topic
- Infant sleep
- Asks people to
- StopSubstitute
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- Clinical settingPrint
- Audience
- Parents
Evidence
ObservationalPositive
SIDS incidence fell from a mean of 1.83 (1984-94) to 0.4 per 1,000 live births after the campaign and stayed low to 1998. Prone sleeping fell from 53.7% to 5.4% and maternal smoking in pregnancy from 22.9% to 14.5% (28,361 infants followed).
Sponsor (who paid)
- Tyrol health authorities and Innsbruck university paediatrics Foreign government, lead
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- Secure Sleep (Vienna) 2000–now
- Back to Sleep 1994–now
Sources
- Epidemiology of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in the Tyrol before and after an intervention campaign. evaluation · 2001 · PMID 11233464
Research notes
Sponsor wording is inferred from the study setting; 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/tyrol-sids-campaign.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign