Conference presentation
Safe or Safer: Helping Parents to Balance Idealistic Expectations Versus Practical Realities in Caring for Babies
ISA-ISPID Digital Conference, 2021 (Online, 11-Nov-2021 - 13-Nov-2021)
2021
Abstract
Initial SUDI prevention strategies using a risk elimination approach were successful in acieving dramatic reductions in sudden infant deaths during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As infant mortality rates have fallen new challenges have emerged including parental unwillingness or inability to comply with guidance, inequalities in effectiveness of guidance, and difficulties in aligning SUDI prevention guidance with other infant health and care initiatives.
A risk minimisation perspective accepts that attempts to enforce idealistic expectations of total risk elimination can alienate parents and serve as a barrier to further SUDI reduction. Risk minimisation approaches to SUDI prevention which support parents to achieve ‘safer sleep’ where ‘safe sleep’ is an unrealistic goal, offer flexibility to address these challenges and embed SUDI prevention in all infant health and parent-support initiatives. Such approaches should be rigorously explored and evaluated.
Audience: This thematic panel is intended for researchers involved in designing and evaluating SUDI prevention strategies and the practitioners who implement them.
Objectives: The objectives of this panel are: to discuss the evidence that highlights the need for flexible and tailored safer sleep campaigns that are responsive to parent and infant needs and circumstances; and to illustrate how such approaches are being implemented to improve information and practical support available to families in Australia and UK that will achieve safer sleep for babies.
Details
- Title
- Safe or Safer: Helping Parents to Balance Idealistic Expectations Versus Practical Realities in Caring for Babies
- Authors
- Helen L Ball (Author) - Durham UniversityJeanine Young (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine - LegacyAnna Pease (Author) - University of BristolDiane Cruice (Author)
- Conference details
- ISA-ISPID Digital Conference, 2021 (Online, 11-Nov-2021 - 13-Nov-2021)
- Organisation Unit
- School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health - Nursing
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99603882902621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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