Table 3

OR (95% CI) for infants dying from SIDS classified by whether or not they shared a room with one or more adults and weekday or weekend and Sunday or the rest of the week

Sharing room with adultCasesControlsOR (95% CI)
Adjusted for time of death, season, and ethnic originMultivariate3-150
Weekend
 NoNo1535781.001.00
 NoYes955340.41 (0.30 to 0.56)0.21 (0.14 to 0.32)
 YesNo702321.14 (0.81 to 1.60)1.10 (0.73 to 1.65)
 YesYes702130.74 0.51 to 1.07)0.48 (0.30 to 0.77)
Sunday
 NoNo1886951.001.00
 NoYes1266510.43 (0.32 to 0.57)0.22 (0.15 to 0.32)
 YesNo351141.10 (0.72 to 1.70)0.89 (0.52 to 1.53)
 YesYes39960.92 (0.59 to 1.45)0.59 (0.33 to 1.07)
  • 3-150 Confounding factors: (a) demographic factors—socioeconomic status (occupation) marital status, school leaving age, and mother’s age at birth of infant; (b) pregnancy factors—antenatal class attended, month of pregnancy when mother started attending antenatal clinic, number of previous pregnancies, and mother’s age at first pregnancy; (c) infant factors—sex of infant, ethnicity, birth weight, and gestation; and (d) postneonatal factors—region, infant’s age at time of death/nominated time, season, sleeping position, maternal smoking, breast feeding, and infant sharing bed with another person.