Factor Affecting Sudden Infant Death Syndrome – Findings and Implications SIDS Contributory Factors

Abstract

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is still the primary cause of mortality which is not only causing deaths in rich countries but also in all over the world. Many confounders are responsible for SIDS, which still can be avoided, and the prevalence can stop to save infant deaths. The present systematic review has been conducted to distinguish those responsible factors. The objective of the current systematic review was to identify those confounders and corelate them with SIDS. For conducting the current systematic review, the basic online scientific data bases i.e., (Scopus, ProQuest, Science-Direct, Web of Science along with PubMed) were utilized for searching along with the manual research on Google Scholar. The present systematic review was in line with ‘Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) standards and recommendations. A 20-point appraisal tool for Cross-Sectional Studies (AXIS tool) was used to critically evaluate the quality of the used studies. Additionally, applying the framework of PECO-S (Population -Exposure -Comparison -Outcome -Study design) numerous observational studies were enrolled for this review. Out of 1989 studies obtained, 24 studies fulfill the inclusion criteria and are thus included in the present review. The original research studies included in the present systematic review were all in “English” language published during the time duration of 2015-2025. Overall, 24 research papers covering 11 different countries’ sample population were included. More number of infants died due to SIDS in the age group of 2-4 months. The average number of males infants were 74.8% with SIDS in current study. Smoking of parents contributed around 64.3%, low income about 56.9%, sharing of beds contributed around 58.7%, whereas non-breastfeeding contributed more than 90% in SIDS in infants. The main causative confounders are the breast feeding, smoking of parents, low-income status of parents and maternal education.