Secure Sleep (Vienna)
Also: Sicherer Schlaf · Safe Sleep (Vienna)
SIDS prevention campaign by Vienna's children's hospitals around 2000. Instead of mass media it relies on one clear, uniform message about smoking, prone sleeping, overheating and bedding, given to parents in personal conversations before and after birth.
- Years
- 2000–now
- Country
- Austria
- Topic
- Infant sleep
- Asks people to
- StopSubstitute
- Strategy
- Simple instructionTrusted messenger
- Channel
- Clinical settingInterpersonal
- Audience
- Parents
Evidence
NoneUnknown
No outcome evaluation found; the papers describe the campaign's design and the Austrian consensus behind it.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Children's hospitals of Vienna State local government, lead
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- SIDS information campaign (Tyrol) 1994–now
Sources
- [4th Austrian SIDS Consensus-Consultation and the Viennese SIDS prevention campaign "Secure Sleep"]. history · 2000 · PMID 10763529
- [Secure Sleep--SIDS prevention campaign by children's hospitals of Vienna]. history · 2000 · PMID 10763528
Research notes
Start year approximate (papers from 2000). A 2008 'baby sleeping sack' campaign (OpenAlex W2465681808) may be a later Austrian strand; check. 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/vienna-secure-sleep.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign