Karraker K H
Nurs Res. 1986 Nov-Dec;35(6):358-63.
Six 3-hour observations of adult attention to infants in a newborn nursery were conducted to describe the amount and type of attention received by the infants and to determine if individual differences among infants were related to this attention. Most infants spent the majority of the observation time between feedings in the nursery and received attention from an adult in the nursery an average of 5.5% of the time. More infant crying was associated with longer adult attention, although this effect was largely attributable to a small group of particularly irritable infants in which circumcised males were overrepresented. A number of infant characteristics, including age, sex, race, physical attractiveness, degree of prematurity, crying, and eye opening, were associated with the content of the interaction between nurses' aides and newborns. These observations are discussed with respect to hospital practices concerning care of newborns and the potential effects on newborns of rooming-in with their mothers.
在新生儿护理室对成年人关注婴儿的情况进行了6次为时3小时的观察，目的是描述婴儿获得关注的数量和类型，并确定婴儿个体差异是否与这种关注有关。大多数婴儿在护理室喂奶间隙的大部分观察时间里，平均只有5.5%的时间能得到护理室里成年人的关注。婴儿哭得越多，成年人关注的时间就越长，不过这种影响主要归因于一小群特别烦躁的婴儿，其中接受割礼的男婴占比过高。包括年龄、性别、种族、外貌吸引力、早产程度、哭闹和睁眼等在内的一些婴儿特征，与护理助理和新生儿之间互动的内容有关。针对医院关于新生儿护理的做法以及母婴同室对新生儿的潜在影响，对这些观察结果进行了讨论。
