Sibert J R, Newcombe R G
Postgrad Med J. 1977 May;53(619):254-6. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.53.619.254.
The personality of 105 children under 5 years of age admitted to Cardiff Hospital was compared with 105 control children by means of a semantic differential test. Poisoning-children were significantly more anxious (P less than 0-008), harder (P less than 0-01), and more active (P less than 0-04) than controls. They also caused more worry (P less than 0-04) and put other than food more ofter in their mouths (P less than 0-002). There were no significant differences in the age of walking, and the ages of becoming clean and dry between cases and controls. However, poisoning-children had significantly more accidents and hospital admissions than did controls. The relevance of these findings, particularly in relation to the important role of family stress, to the aetiology of accidental poisoning in childhood is discussed.
通过语义差异测试，对卡迪夫医院收治的105名5岁以下儿童的性格与105名对照儿童进行了比较。中毒儿童比对照组儿童明显更焦虑（P<0.008）、更难相处（P<0.01）、更活跃（P<0.04）。他们也更让人操心（P<0.04），把食物以外的东西放进嘴里的频率更高（P<0.002）。病例组和对照组在开始走路的年龄以及能够自主控制大小便的年龄方面没有显著差异。然而，中毒儿童发生意外和住院的情况明显多于对照组。讨论了这些发现的相关性，特别是与家庭压力的重要作用相关，对儿童意外中毒病因学的影响。
