Table 2.
Characteristics remaining significantly associated with awareness of safe sleeping programme messages in multivariable analysis
| Prompted awareness Correct multi-choice selection of the current 6 key messages OR (95% CI) |
|
| Maternal age | |
| 24 years or younger | 1.00 |
| 25 years or older | 1.88 (1.41 to 2.52) |
| Marital status | |
| Single (never married, separated, widowed) | 1.00 |
| Partnered (married/de facto) | 1.55 (1.07 to 2.24) |
| Country of birth | |
| Overseas born | 1.00 |
| Australian born | 1.36 (1.11 to 1.67) |
| Education level* | |
| Less than tertiary completed | 1.00 |
| Tertiary completed | 2.13 (1.75 to 2.58) |
| Model of maternity care† | |
| Public | 1.00 |
| Private | 1.35 (1.13 to 1.63) |
| Heard of terms SUDI and SIDS | |
| No | 1.00 |
| Yes | 2.04 (1.36 to 3.07) |
*Tertiary education in Australia includes training completed in both higher education (including universities leading to a Bachelor, Master or Doctoral degree) or vocational education and training (providing certificate and diploma qualifications).
†Australia’s healthcare system has two models: the public health system where Australian public access care for free or at a lower cost via a tax-funded scheme, and the private health system where health service providers are owned and managed privately and services provided at the expense of the client.
SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome; SUDI, sudden unexpected death in infancy.