St James-Roberts I, Hurry J, Bowyer J
Thomas Coram Research Unit, London.
Arch Dis Child. 1993 Jan;68(1):82-4. doi: 10.1136/adc.68.1.82.
Parents commonly seek clinicians' help for infant crying that they judge to be excessive. To date there is no independent evidence whether such babies actually cry more than average. To assess this, maternal diary and 24 hour audiotape recordings of the crying periods of 16 infants referred for excessive crying were compared with equivalent measures of a normative sample. The overall amounts of crying measured by the two methods were similar. The referred infants cried substantially more over 24 hours and in the afternoon and evening. The difference approached significance in the morning but was insignificant at night time. Some qualifications to the findings are indicated.
父母们常常会因他们认为婴儿过度哭闹而寻求临床医生的帮助。迄今为止，尚无独立证据表明这些婴儿的实际哭闹次数是否超过平均水平。为了评估这一点，将16名因过度哭闹前来就诊的婴儿的母亲日记以及哭闹时段的24小时录音与一个正常样本的相应测量结果进行了比较。两种方法测得的总体哭闹量相似。前来就诊的婴儿在24小时内以及下午和晚上哭得明显更多。上午的差异接近显著水平，但夜间不显著。研究结果有一些限定条件。
