%0 Journal Article
%T Sudden infant death syndrome: knowledge of its risk factors among Italian healthcare professionals
%A Federico De Luca
%A Giovanna Boccuzzo
%J -
%D 2012
%R DOI Code: 10.1285/i20705948v5n3p374
%X This paper focuses on healthcare professionals¡¯ knowledge about risk and protective factors of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.We adapted a Rasch model to obtain an index of unpreparedness which we then analysed with a random logistic regression model.Healthcare professionals from different regions present significant differences in their knowledge. All healthcare professionals, especially physicians, show a sig-nificantly lower knowledge than paediatricians. Similar conclusions can be drawn with respect to those not working in birth centres or in family planning clinics
%K healthcare workers
%K infant mortality
%K knowledge assessment
%K Rasch model
%K random logistic regression model
%U http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/ejasa/article/view/12206