Räihä H, Lehtonen L, Korhonen T, Korvenranta H
Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland.
J Dev Behav Pediatr. 1997 Oct;18(5):290-4. doi: 10.1097/00004703-199710000-00002.
Infantile colic causes stress to many families during the first weeks of an infant's life. In our previous studies, we found that families with severely colicky infants had more problems in their daily functioning than did families without colicky infants and that the affective state in these families was anxious and conflicted. These characteristics showed some stability from the colicky period to 1 year of age. In the present study, we examined the functioning of these families 3 years after the colicky period. The McMaster Family Assessment Device was used to evaluate the family interaction in 59 families with previously colicky infants and 58 control families. Three years after the colicky period, families with moderately and severely colicky infants did not differ significantly from control families with respect to psychological family characteristics.
婴儿腹绞痛在婴儿出生后的头几周给许多家庭带来压力。在我们之前的研究中，我们发现，与没有腹绞痛婴儿的家庭相比，有严重腹绞痛婴儿的家庭在日常功能方面存在更多问题，而且这些家庭的情感状态焦虑且矛盾。这些特征从腹绞痛期到1岁时表现出一定的稳定性。在本研究中，我们在腹绞痛期过后3年对这些家庭的功能进行了调查。使用麦克马斯特家庭评估工具对59个曾有腹绞痛婴儿的家庭和58个对照家庭的家庭互动进行了评估。腹绞痛期过后3年，有中度和重度腹绞痛婴儿的家庭在家庭心理特征方面与对照家庭没有显著差异。
