NICHD Safe to Sleep campaign
The US public education campaign, led by NICHD, that teaches parents, caregivers and health workers how to lower the risk of SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths. It offers free materials, videos and training.
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Overview
Technical summary
A collection of educational materials and pages published by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health. The campaign page says it has helped educate millions of parents, caregivers, health care and child care providers, and others, and that many partners at federal, state and local levels assist with outreach. The campaign advice is recorded on the safe infant sleep page. The campaign page says NICHD leads it, and this record links to the NICHD organisation record.
Resource
- Type
- Collection
- Owner
- Not reported
- Contents
- Public education pages, printed and downloadable materials, videos, training resources and a partner toolkit on safe infant sleep.
- Access
- Free to order, print and download from safetosleep.nichd.nih.gov.
- License
- NICHD text is in the public domain; images and logos are not (NICHD disclaimer page).
Claims and evidence
Context Infants younger than 1 year in the United States and their caregivers (NICHD Safe to Sleep)
- Recipient
- Child
- Population
- Babies younger than 1 year of age and the people who care for them. The Safe to Sleep campaign addresses parents, grandparents, other relatives, babysitters, child care providers and anyone who might care for a baby. Counts on the page are for the United States.
- Care setting
- Home and child care sleep settings (the page lists parents, babysitters and child care providers).
- Geography
- United States (NICHD campaign)
- Life stage
- Newborn and infant, younger than 1 year
- Gestational age
- Not reported
- Postnatal age
- Not reported
- Follow-up
- Not applicable (guidance and national counts)
Eligibility: 1 inclusion criterion; 1 exclusion criterion
- Included
- Infants younger than 1 year
- Excluded
- The page notes babies born preterm or with certain health conditions may need different care
The Safe to Sleep campaign page says the campaign is led by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Applies to Child- Babies younger than 1 year of age and the people who care for them. The Safe to Sleep campaign addresses parents, grandparents, other relatives, babysitters, child care providers and anyone who might care for a baby. Counts on the page are for the United States.
- Home and child care sleep settings (the page lists parents, babysitters and child care providers).
- United States (NICHD campaign)
- Newborn and infant, younger than 1 year
- Gestational age Not reported
- Postnatal age Not reported
- Certainty method
- Not assessed
- Limitations
- This is the campaign's description of itself on its own page. Nothing about the campaign's partners or funding was read beyond that page's statement that many partners assist with outreach.
- Last checked
- 2026-10-15
- Next evidence check due
- Not scheduled
Sources and citations (1)
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Supports About the Campaign (Safe to Sleep campaign)
- Locator
- About the campaign, paragraph 2
- How it applies
- The campaign's own about page.
- Retrieved
- Source effective date
- Not reported
- Source state
- Current
- Snapshot hash
c6d4e6f0bff0c8cd690659cfec72a5ad5bf6572da598fb01736ea98e95886595- Reuse basis
- NICHD disclaimer page (fetched as mj-nichd-disclaimer.html, sha256 08010c9291ae905c92c643e1625556614b3f7e6da0a7fd7b20af1781b66b3adf) says most text on the NICHD website is in the public domain and not subject to copyright, and that images and logos are not. The page bytes are not committed. Short quotations with attribution.
Record details
- Record id
maternal:safe-to-sleep-campaign- Content hash
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