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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2017 Jul 25;318(4):351–359. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.8982

Table 2.

Safe Sleep and Feeding Practices Prior to Study Enrollment From the SAFE Studya

No./Total (%)
Breastfeeding Nursing Quality Improvement and Breastfeeding Mobile Health Messaging Intervention Safe Sleep Nursing Quality Improvement and Breastfeeding Mobile Health Messaging Intervention Breastfeeding Nursing Quality Improvement and Safe Sleep Mobile Health Messaging Intervention Safe Sleep Nursing Quality Improvement and Safe Sleep Mobile Health Messaging Intervention Total
Supine sleep position 299/417 (71.7) 272/387 (70.3) 315/421 (74.8) 278/379 (73.4) 1164/1604 (72.6)
Room sharing without bed sharing 266/405 (65.7) 260/370 (70.3) 265/407 (65.1) 242/366 (66.1) 1033/1548 (66.7)
Any pacifier use 271/410 (66.1) 250/375 (66.7) 284/415 (68.4) 244/367 (66.5) 1049/1567 (66.9)
Any breastfeeding 262/413 (63.4) 221/386 (57.3) 244/419 (58.2) 212/378 (56.1) 939/1596 (58.8)
Exclusively breastfeeding 143/413 (34.6) 93/386 (24.1) 119/419 (28.4) 90/378 (23.8) 445/1596 (27.9)
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Data were collected during the Study of Attitudes and Factors Effecting Infant Care Practices (SAFE) study (2011–2014),17 which was an observational study with no interventions. These data are limited to English speakers to be most comparable with the inclusion criteria for this study. Infants were aged 60 to 227 days when SAFE survey given to mothers. Soft bedding data were not available in the SAFE study. Sample size for individual questions varied due to missing data.