Study Interventions
baby syndrome, SIDS
Intervention curricula were delivered by CRAs at the 3- and 8-week home visits. In both conditions, mothers were provided with a packet of intervention handouts that the facilitators talked through with the mother, supplemented with hands-on activities, discussion, and videos. Methods and intervention materials for both groups were tailored for Black families.Details on the Sleep SAAF curriculum are published elsewhere.The control curriculum was matched for intensity and session length but focused on sleep and home safety. CRAs taught mothers about SIDS facts and myths, reducing baby’s risk of SIDS (eg, placing baby on their back on a firm sleep surface; keeping baby’s sleep area close to, but separate from, where the mother sleeps; using a pacifier), the importance of good health care, taking care of a crying baby (eg, preventing shaken baby syndrome), finding caretakers for baby, and food safety.