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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Bed sharing patterns in a cohort of Australian infants during the first six months after birth |
Author: | Tippett, R. McMillen, I. Buckley, P. |
Citation: | Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2000; 36(2):117-121 |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing Asia |
Issue Date: | 2000 |
ISSN: | 1034-4810 1440-1754 |
Statement of Responsibility: | R S Rigda, I C McMillen and P Buckley |
Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: To measure bed sharing (BS) activity in healthy term infants. METHODOLOGY: The sleep–wake behaviour and place of infant sleep were recorded for infants aged between 2 and 24 weeks. Infants were then identified as BS or non bed sharing (NBS) according to each of four different definitions of bed sharing. RESULTS: The mean proportion of infants who spent any time BS during a 24-h period was significantly greater (P < 0.05) between 2 and 12 weeks (40.9 ± 1.4%) than between 13 and 24 weeks (36.5 ± 1.5%). A significantly greater proportion (P < 0.005) of infants bed shared for more than 2 h (25 ± 1%) than for either 1–2 h (10.5 ± 1.1%) or for less than 1 h/24 h (3.2 ± 0.5%) during the whole study period. Each of the definitions of BS used in the study separated infants on the basis of the amount and frequency of BS activity. CONCLUSION: Bed sharing activity was common and varied in this cohort. It was possible, using quantitative definitions, to identify those infants who routinely bed share. |
Keywords: | Bed sharing co-sleeping infant sleep sudden infant death syndrome |
Rights: | Copyright status unknown |
DOI: | 10.1046/j.1440-1754.2000.00468.x |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1754.2000.00468.x |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Physiology publications |
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