Program seeks to cut shaken baby syndrome deaths

by Dar Danielson on November 20, 2009

in Crime & Courts, Health & Medicine

Shaken Baby Syndrome prevention DVD.

Shaken Baby Syndrome prevention DVD.

State officials announced a new program today aimed at preventing shaken baby syndrome. Prevent Child Abuse Iowa executive director, Stepen Scott, says a study of child deaths in the state from 1995 through 2007 showed 49 of 117 were caused by shaken baby syndrome.

The new program includes an educational booklet and DVD. Scott says the program allows parents of newborns in hospitals will receive the information and have a resource when they go home. He says they hope to decrease the number of shaken baby deaths by helping parents reduce stress and helping them “avoid this kind of harm.”

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