Using a pacifier to decrease sudden infant death syndrome: an emergency department educational intervention

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Introduction

Methods

Objectives

Primary objective

Secondary objectives

Design

Setting

Subjects

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

Study definitions

Outcome measures

Intervention

Statistical methods

Primary outcome

Secondary outcomes

Secular trends in overall community knowledge

Physical proximity

Social proximity

Results

Baseline knowledge of SIDS prevention recommendations

Pacifier use

Effect of the intervention

Intention to treat analysis

Treatment received analysis

Discussion

Limitations

Conclusion

Supplemental information

Survey instrument as it appears to research assistants doing data entry

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.309/supp-1

Informational brochure used during our educational intervention and given to the primary caregiver to keep

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Univariate analysis of factors associated with primary caregiver knowledge of each of five pacifier prevention recommendations

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Multivariable analysis of the factors from Appendix S3

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.309/supp-4

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

Paul Walsh, Teri Vieth, Carolina Rodriguez, Nicole Lona, Rogelio Molina, Gregory Veazey, Emnet Habebo, Enrique Caldera, Cynthia Garcia are or were employees of or research volunteers at Kern Medical Center.

Author Contributions

Paul Walsh conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, wrote the paper, prepared figures and/or tables and reviewed drafts of the paper.

Teri Vieth conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data and reviewed drafts of the paper.

Carolina Rodriguez, Nicole Lona, Rogelio Molina, Emnet Habebo, Enrique Caldera, Cynthia Garcia and Gregory Veazey performed the experiments and reviewed drafts of the paper.

Human Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

Kern Medical Center IRB: Approval 0826.

Funding

This work was supported by The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Foundation, Long Beach, CA and by Award Number 5K12HL108964-02 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes for Health, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through grant number UL1 TR000002. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute or the National Institutes of Health or The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

 
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