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Racial and incident discrepancies in news media reporting of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID)

BACKGROUND: Regardless of injury prevention and outreach efforts, there continue to be low rates of adherence with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) safe sleep recommendations. Media is an important tool for parental education and may influence risk perception and caregiver choices. Due to me...

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Autores principales: Lazarus, Sarah Gard, Miller, Terri, Hudson, Philip J., McFadden, Terri, Baas, Gretchen, Kendi, Sadiqa
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9768877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36544220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40621-022-00398-2
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author Lazarus, Sarah Gard
Miller, Terri
Hudson, Philip J.
McFadden, Terri
Baas, Gretchen
Kendi, Sadiqa
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Miller, Terri
Hudson, Philip J.
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Baas, Gretchen
Kendi, Sadiqa
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description BACKGROUND: Regardless of injury prevention and outreach efforts, there continue to be low rates of adherence with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) safe sleep recommendations. Media is an important tool for parental education and may influence risk perception and caregiver choices. Due to media reports potentially serving as an opportunity for shaping social norms, caregiver education and injury prevention, an evaluation was undertaken to evaluate Georgia local news reporting of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) as compared to drownings, homicides, and firearm injuries. Our objective was to evaluate incident and racial discrepancies in Georgia news media reporting of SUID as compared to other pediatric injury deaths. RESULTS: Despite its high incidence, SUID was far less commonly mentioned in the news media, with only 1.9% (10/525) mentioned as compared to 8.1% of drownings (17/211), 11.4% (74/649) of MVC’s, 14.7% (59/402) of homicides between ages 1–18, 20% (11/55) of fire-related deaths and 25% (15/59) of homicides under age one (infant homicides). Across SUID and homicide, deaths of White infants were reported in the news media at 2.5 times the rate of Black infants. CONCLUSION: Despite SUID being a leading cause of infant death, it is infrequently mentioned in the news media. When mentioned, the news media are more likely to highlight the deaths of White infants as compared to Black infants, though the incidence rate of SUID is higher in Black infants as compared to White.
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spelling pubmed-97688772022-12-22 Racial and incident discrepancies in news media reporting of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) Lazarus, Sarah Gard Miller, Terri Hudson, Philip J. McFadden, Terri Baas, Gretchen Kendi, Sadiqa Inj Epidemiol Research BACKGROUND: Regardless of injury prevention and outreach efforts, there continue to be low rates of adherence with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) safe sleep recommendations. Media is an important tool for parental education and may influence risk perception and caregiver choices. Due to media reports potentially serving as an opportunity for shaping social norms, caregiver education and injury prevention, an evaluation was undertaken to evaluate Georgia local news reporting of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) as compared to drownings, homicides, and firearm injuries. Our objective was to evaluate incident and racial discrepancies in Georgia news media reporting of SUID as compared to other pediatric injury deaths. RESULTS: Despite its high incidence, SUID was far less commonly mentioned in the news media, with only 1.9% (10/525) mentioned as compared to 8.1% of drownings (17/211), 11.4% (74/649) of MVC’s, 14.7% (59/402) of homicides between ages 1–18, 20% (11/55) of fire-related deaths and 25% (15/59) of homicides under age one (infant homicides). Across SUID and homicide, deaths of White infants were reported in the news media at 2.5 times the rate of Black infants. CONCLUSION: Despite SUID being a leading cause of infant death, it is infrequently mentioned in the news media. When mentioned, the news media are more likely to highlight the deaths of White infants as compared to Black infants, though the incidence rate of SUID is higher in Black infants as compared to White. BioMed Central 2022-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9768877/ /pubmed/36544220 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40621-022-00398-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Miller, Terri
Hudson, Philip J.
McFadden, Terri
Baas, Gretchen
Kendi, Sadiqa
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title_fullStr Racial and incident discrepancies in news media reporting of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID)
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title_short Racial and incident discrepancies in news media reporting of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9768877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36544220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40621-022-00398-2
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