. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2016 Jul;20(7):1464–1471. doi: 10.1007/s10995-016-1945-9

Table 3.

Proportion of respondents reporting compliance with safe sleep criteria ^† by beliefs of grandmother

	Proportion meeting safe sleep criteria
Grandmother’s Belief	Infant sleeping at Grandmother’s house N (%)	Infant sleeping at Mother’s house N (%)
Dangerous for babies to bed share
Disagree	14 (41%)	15 (62%)
Agree	93 (46%)	97 (58%)

Babies sleep more comfortably/longer on back^**
Disagree	87 (56%)	88 (70%)
Agree	20 (24%)	24 (35%)

Babies likely to choke on back^**
Disagree	90 (58%)	93 (73%)
Agree	16 (20%)	18 (28%)

^†

Safe sleep was defined for purposes of this study as infant sleeping in a crib, portable crib, playpen, play yard and on his/her back.

p ≤ 0.05

^**

p< 0.001