In a study carried out for the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths(FSID) and Mothercare, 797 parents of children aged under three werepresented with a picture of a baby sleeping in a room containing eightcot death risks. Only a quarter of the parents could identify more thanhalf of the potential hazards.
The researchers found that:
- 90 per cent of parents did not mention the baby sleeping in its ownroom as being at risk of cot death
- 69 per cent did not identify that the baby was sleeping on its siderather than its back
- 27 per cent did not know that a cot or bed positioned next to aradiator is a cot death risk
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