Infants with colic: Their childhood characteristics☆☆☆
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare 40 six- to eight-year-old children, 20 with prospectively ascertained infantile colic and a matched sample of 20 without colic, on characteristics of emotional regulation and on parent stress. Children completed tests of cognitive ability, and mothers completed childhood behavioral questionnaires and a parenting stress assessment. Children with colic had maternal ratings suggestive of more difficulty with emotional regulation than their noncolic matches and displayed a more impulsive cognitive style. However, the mean scores of both groups were in the normal range. Copyright 2003, Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
☆ This research was supported by the National Institute of Nursing Research as a National Research Service Award (NR07010-02), as well as a grant from Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society.
☆☆ Address correspondence and reprint requests to Madalynn Neu, RN, PhD, Box C 288, University of Colorado, 4200 E. Ninth Ave., Denver, CO 80262.
PII: S0882-5963(02)43904-8
doi:10.1053/jpdn.2003.3
© 2003 Published by Elsevier Inc.
