Sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) is the leading cause of death for infants. Physician advice on safe sleep is an important source of information for families. We sought to evaluate the safe sleep knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of physicians by distributing a cross-sectional survey at a freestanding children’s hospital. The survey included demographics, knowledge items, attitudinal assessment, and frequency of providing safe sleep guidance. Multivariable linear regression and logistic regression were used to evaluate associations between variables. 398 physicians were surveyed with 124 responses (31%). Females, those who received safe sleep training, and those who see infants in daily practice had higher knowledge scores. Physicians with higher knowledge scores had more positive attitudes toward safe sleep and provided safe sleep education to patients more often. Our study underlies the importance of education and repeated exposure in forming positive attitudes toward safe sleep recommendations and leads to increased provision of safe sleep guidance.

婴儿意外猝死 (SUID) 是婴儿死亡的主要原因。医生关于安全睡眠的建议是家庭的重要信息来源。我们试图通过在独立儿童医院分发横断面调查来评估医生的安全睡眠知识、态度和行为。该调查包括人口统计、知识项目、态度评估和提供安全睡眠指导的频率。多变量线性回归和逻辑回归用于评估变量之间的关联。398 名医生接受了 124 份回复 (31%) 的调查。女性、接受过安全睡眠训练的人以及在日常实践中看到婴儿的人的知识得分更高。知识得分越高的医师对安全睡眠的态度越积极，对患者进行安全睡眠教育的频率越高。我们的研究强调了教育和反复接触对于形成对安全睡眠建议的积极态度的重要性，并导致增加安全睡眠指导的提供。