Keefe M R, Kotzer A M, Reuss J L, Sander L W
Children's Hospital, Denver CO.
Nurs Res. 1989 Nov-Dec;38(6):344-7.
The concept of infant state refers to patterns of behavior that comprise the sleep-wake cycle. The infant's ability to organize state behavior rhythmically is indicative of central nervous system maturation and predictive of later development. This article describes the development of a noninvasive, computerized infant monitoring system that can be used to categorize the infant's sleep-wake behavior into states. Development of the system occurred in two phases: In the first phase of the study, reliability and validity of the infant monitoring system for recording continuous behavioral and physiological data were assessed. These results were then used in the second phase to develop a rule-based computer program to interpret the signal data stored on a micro-diskette and to characterize the infant's state throughout the period of monitoring. The capability of computerized data collection and analysis of infant state behavior has expanded the application of this infant monitoring system. Its use as an investigative tool in clinical research is discussed.
婴儿状态的概念指的是构成睡眠-觉醒周期的行为模式。婴儿有节奏地组织状态行为的能力表明中枢神经系统成熟，并可预测后期发育。本文描述了一种非侵入性的计算机化婴儿监测系统的开发，该系统可用于将婴儿的睡眠-觉醒行为分类为不同状态。该系统的开发分两个阶段进行：在研究的第一阶段，评估了用于记录连续行为和生理数据的婴儿监测系统的可靠性和有效性。然后在第二阶段利用这些结果开发了一个基于规则的计算机程序，以解释存储在微型软盘上的信号数据，并在整个监测期间表征婴儿的状态。计算机化的数据收集和分析婴儿状态行为的能力扩展了该婴儿监测系统的应用。文中讨论了其作为临床研究调查工具的用途。
