Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Case Studies

The risk factors of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) have been studied in various studies. Brooke et al. 1997 did a case-control study in Scotland to evaluate how different practices related to the infant care relate with the occurrence of SIDS. In another case study by Hauck et al. 2003, the risks of SIDS were also investigated, and the focus was on the blacks who experience this problem more than the whites. The designs used in both of these studies entailed case-control studies in which the SIDS cases and controls were identified. The infant nursing practices that had been utilized in the cases were compared with those that had been utilized in the controls. The study by Brooke et al. 1997 had 201 cases and 276 controls. The cases and controls were sampled from the scope of the whole nation. The study by Hauck et al. 2003 used a population of the …show more content…
The study by Brooke et al. 1997 showed that sleeping prone was associated with higher odds of SIDS as well as smoking behavior in the mother or the father of the infants. The ODDS associated with sleeping prone was 2.33. In the study by Hauck et al. 2003, the results also showed that sleeping prone increased occurrence of SIDS. The ODD seen in this correlation was 2.4, a figure that is very close to that of the comparison study. In this study, there was also a direct correlation between smoking by the parents and the occurrence of SIDS. Thus, prone position and smoking have been proven to as causes of SIDS from the results of multiple studies. However, the studies have used case-control designs. Comparing the results of case-controls and that derived from other designs like Random Controlled trials (RCTS) it is accurate to say that the latter design has a stronger level of evidence because of minimal bias and errors incurred in the research