Audio recording of infant crying: Comparison with maternal cry logs

Salisbury, Amy L.; Minard, Kathleen L.; Hunsley, Melissa; Thoman, Evelyn B.

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“…Previous studies have found that reports on a cry diary are related to audiotaped recordings, providing evidence for the validity of the cry diary (St. James-Roberts et al, 1993; Salisbury, Minard, Hunsley, & Thoman, 2001).…”

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It takes two: Infants’ moderate negative reactivity and maternal sensitivity predict self-regulation in the preschool years.

Geeraerts¹,

Backer²,

Stifter³

2020

Developmental Psychology

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The aim of this longitudinal study was to examine the association of infant fussing and crying with self-regulation in toddlerhood and the preschool years, as well as the moderating role of maternal sensitivity therein. When children (n = 149, 53.69% boys) were 6 months old, parents reported on their fussing and crying using a cry diary, and maternal sensitivity was coded during a novel toy procedure. Children participated in various tasks to assess self-regulation in toddlerhood (18 months) and the preschool years (4.5 years). Results indicated that the relation between infant fussing and preschool self-regulation took the shape of an inverted U, but only for children of highly sensitive mothers. For infants of less sensitive mothers, fussing was not related to later self-regulation. Crying was unrelated to preschool self-regulation. Neither fussing, crying, nor maternal sensitivity predicted self-regulation in toddlerhood. The findings support the optimal arousal theory, by demonstrating that for infants of highly sensitive mothers, moderate amounts of low intensity negative reactivity are associated with enhanced self-regulation in the preschool years.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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It takes two: Infants’ moderate negative reactivity and maternal sensitivity predict self-regulation in the preschool years.

Geeraerts¹,

Backer²,

Stifter³

2020

Developmental Psychology

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“…Twenty-four hour behavior diaries are considered to be the international gold standard for measurement. 14,[34][35][36] We investigated, firstly, what is the change in fuss/cry duration over the first 12 weeks of life and is there a universal "crying curve" (5-6 week fuss/cry duration peak)?…”

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Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Fussing and Crying Durations and Prevalence of Colic in Infants

Wolke

Bilgin

Samara

2017

The Journal of Pediatrics

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Objective: To determine the mean duration of fussing and crying and prevalence of colic using modified Wessel criteria in infants in the first 3 months of life. Is there a universal 6 week crying peak and what is the prevalence of colic according to age and country?Study Design: A systematic literature search was performed using the databases Medline, PsycINFO and Embase. The major outcome measure was mean total fuss/cry duration during 24 hours at 1-2 weeks (11 samples), 3-4 weeks (6 samples); 5-6 weeks (28 samples), 8-9 weeks (9 samples) and 10-12 weeks (12 samples). Results:Of 5687 articles reviewed, 28 diary studies (33 samples) were suitable for inclusion in meta-analysis. The studies included 8690 infants. No statistical evidence for a universal crying peak at 6 weeks across studies was found. Rather, the mean fuss/cry duration across studies was stable at around 117-133 minutes (SDs: 66-70) in the first 6 weeks and dropped to a mean of around 68 minutes (SD: 46.2) by 10-12 weeks. Colic was much more frequent in the first 6 weeks (17-25%) than thereafter (11% by 8-9 weeks and 0.6% by 10-12 weeks) according to modified Wessel criteria and lowest in Denmark and Japan.Conclusions: Fuss/cry duration drops significantly after 8-9 weeks of age with colic as defined by modified Wessel criteria being rare in infants older than 9 weeks. Colic or excessive fuss/cry may be more accurately identified by defining fuss/cry above the 90 th percentile in the chart provided based on the review.

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“…There might be some variability in the accuracy of both parents’ and nurses’ recording. There is a considerable literature on the reliability of parental verbal or questionnaire report of their infant’s behaviour and temperament (13,14), and parent’s documentation of 24 h cycles of their infant’s cry and sleep patterns (15). Reliability estimates vary, but depending on what infant information or behaviour parents’ document, the estimates are in the 50–85% range compared with an independent measure of the infant or child’s behaviour in question.…”

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Parent‐infant skin‐to‐skin contact: parents’ views versus nurses’ views

Boukydis

2011

Acta Paediatrica

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In the past two decades, there have been advances in the promotion and advocacy of skin-to-skin contact (skin care) or kangaroo care in NICUs including WHO guidelines (1), a recent position statement from an international conference on skin care (2), and meta-analysis studies of morbidity, mortality and psychosocial outcome following skin care in the NICU (3-5). As the promotion and consideration of skin care has developed in countries with advanced neonatal medicine and technological resources, there have been at least two viewpoints on skin care (seen as a recommended practice): one is on the safety and efficacy of skin care (6) and the other is on how to involve and support parents in skin care of their infant as part of the broad context of family-centred care in the NICU (7).This study addresses an important issue, measuring the daily amount of time infants spend being held in skin care, and also who, nurses or parents, can best document the amount of time infants spend in skin care (8). The article indicates that parents who participated in the study were willing to document the time and duration of skin care over a 24-h period and note which parent provided skin care (mother or father). The authors assume that parents were reliable in recording the frequency and duration of their care on simple charts. One assumption of reliability is that the average duration of care recorded by parents was quite similar to the duration charted by the infant's nurses. As indicated in the study, parents and nurses differed in the documentation of the actual number of times infants were on their parents' bodies. The exact agreement between parents' and nurses' documentation regarding both the skin care duration and starting ⁄ termination times was forty per cent. Parents also noted more people who provide skin care than did nurses. A tacit assumption might be that because parents were actually there (holding their babies) and often behind screens that could obstruct the nurses' view, the parents' frequency count and count of number of skin care providers might be more accurate. The authors said that without independent verification such as video recording, it is not possible to determine the accuracy of the parents' (or nurses') count. With the issue of independent verification, the authors ruled out videotaping because of privacy concerns. It is possible to think of other methods that might indicate the amount of time the infant was on the mother's, father's (or any family member's) body. Research on physiological parameters associated with skin care indicates changes in infant temperature and heart rate (9-12). There are sensors that could indicate the infant's position in space -i.e. outside the isolette and movement sensors that might indicate an infant's rhythmic movement on a parent's chest. After studying the reliability of such measures, it might be feasible to use increase and decrease in one or more of these parameters (such as temperature, heart rate or rhythmic physical movement on a parent's chest) as a reliabl...

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Audio recording of infant crying: Comparison with maternal cry logs

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

It takes two: Infants’ moderate negative reactivity and maternal sensitivity predict self-regulation in the preschool years.

It takes two: Infants’ moderate negative reactivity and maternal sensitivity predict self-regulation in the preschool years.

Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Fussing and Crying Durations and Prevalence of Colic in Infants

Parent‐infant skin‐to‐skin contact: parents’ views versus nurses’ views

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