Stimulation at home and psychological profile of mothers of children with or without weight loss during the first 15 days of life
Bravo, G.; Cravioto, J.; Cravioto, P.; Fernández, G.
Boletin Medico del Hospital Infantil de Mexico 47(4): 251-255
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0539-6115 PMID: 2346611 Document Number: 356620
To determine the possible difference of the microenvironment of a group of children who lost weight in their first 15 days of life. Longitudinal ecological study of growth and development of a total cohort of all children born during a calendar year. Rural village of Central Mexico. A group of sixteen children, who fifteen days after birth and without apparent reason, showed a decrease in weight as compared with weight at birth, they were compared with a control group from the same population and matched, case by case, according to gestation age, height at the time of birth, and body weight. To assess the influence of microenvironmental factors two indicators were used. Recording and scoring of maternal behavior was done by adaptation to local conditions by Cravioto et al, of the Maternal Behavior Profile developed by Nancy Bayley. The instrument used for estimating home stimulation was the inventory developed by Caldwell design to sample certain aspects of the quantity and/quality of social, emotional, and cognitive stimulation available to a young child within his home. No significant differences were found in relation to Maternal Behavior Profile and Home Stimulation in the two groups studied (statistical differences, P greater than 0.05). Data from present study contribute to the claim that systematic stimulation in the home and an adequate interrelation mother-child are among the main elements necessary for the proper development of the child.