Timeframe
2017–2018
Funding
Faculty Research Development Fund
COMPASS staff
Barry Milne
Chris Liu
Doney Zhang
Collaborators
University of Auckland
Ed Mitchell
John Thompson
Description
The aim of this study was to examine the association between Sudden Unexplained Death in Infancy (SUDI) and service contacts recorded in StatsNZ’s Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI), adjusting for ethnicity and other sociodemographic factors.
We tested the two hypotheses:
- That service contacts are risk factors for SUDI, where service contacts include maternal mental health services, Child Youth & Family Services, and Department of Corrections;
- That higher rates of SUDI and service contact in Māori are attenuated when sociodemographic and environmental risk factors are taken into account.