Background: With increasing awareness of SIDS in the general public outpatient clinics are confronted with a specific psychological problem: Many parents of newborns suffer from SIDS-related anxiety.

J.J. Filiano and H.C. Kinney (Biol. Neonate 1994) described a triple-risk model of SIDS. According to this model, SIDS may result from the intersection of three overlaping factors : (i ...