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Nutritional Studies During Early Childhood Incidental III. Observations of Temperament, Habits, and Experiences of III‐Health
Author(s) -
BOULTON T. J. C.,
ROWLEY M. P.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1979.tb01195.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pediatrics , temperament , vomiting , infantile colic , bronchitis , crying , personality , psychiatry , surgery , psychology , social psychology
Boulton, T. J. C. and Rowley. M. P. (1979). Aust. Paediatr. J. , 15, 87–90. Nutritional studies during early childhood. III. Incidental observations of temperament, habits, and experiences of ill‐health. The mothers of 391 normal 3‐month‐old and 266 one‐year‐old babies were asked standard questions about their child's motor activity, sleeping, and thumb‐sucking habits, and whether the child had had colic, regurgitant vomiting, or an episode of ill‐health during infancy. By one year 36.5% of the mothers considered their babies to be very active, compared to only 4% considering them placid. At 3 months of age 20% of babies were waking at least once a night, and significant ethnic differences were present, with babies of Itaiian‐born parents waking more frequently. Colic was reported in 40% of babies, occurring frequently in 24.5%. It occurred slightly more frequently in babies of mothers with higher educational attainment, and in first‐born. Fifty‐nine percent of the babies had no episode of ill‐health, or only one or more episodes of upper respiratory infection. Prevalence figures are reported for wheezing episodes, bronchitis and vomiting with diarrhoea.