Do infants of depressed mothers cry more than other infants?
| Autor: | D. T. Westley, P. I. McCLOUD, Jeannette Milgrom |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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Male endocrine system Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Crying Infant temperament medicine Humans Longitudinal Studies Contributory factor Infant crying Depression (differential diagnoses) Depressive Disorder business.industry Case-control study Age Factors Infant Puerperal Disorders Maternal depression Mother-Child Relations Case-Control Studies Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Infant Behavior Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of paediatrics and child health. 31(3) |
| ISSN: | 1034-4810 |
| Popis: | Objectives: This study compared the crying behaviour of infants of depressed and non-depressed mothers at 3 and 6 months of age. Methodology Twenty-nine depressed and 44 non-depressed mothers, their infants and partners participated in this study. Mothers were asked to complete 24-hour diaries of the amount their infants cried for 1 week. Results The diurnal variations in crying patterns of infants of depressed and non-depressed mothers were not significantly different. However, infants of depressed mothers were found to cry significantly more in total per day than infants of non-depressed mothers at 3 months of age, but not at 6 months. The results could not be explained by differences in infant temperament. Conclusion Maternal depression may be a contributory factor to infant crying at 3 months of age. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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