Learning from the British Asian community 

FSID has granted £78,000 to Dr Eduardo Moya of the Paediatric Unit at St Luke’s in Bradford to fund a multi-ethnic study into Sudden Infant Deaths Syndrome.

Dr Moya will be investigating the differences in post-natal infant care between families of South Asian and European origin living in Bradford. Five thousand local families will take part in the study which will run until September 2010.

Dr Moya said: “Our aim is to find out what the dominant infant care practices in South Asian and European families are, so that we can identify which practices could have a protective effect against SIDS. Instances of SIDS are generally lower in families of South Asian origin.”

The study will employ structured telephone interviews to obtain information on postnatal infant care practices for 5,000 families with 8-12 week-old infants. These families will be taken from the existing database of Born in Bradford [BIB] – a project headed by Professor John Wright from the Bradford Institute for Health Research examining the health outcomes of 10,000 babies born in the city.