Stress at three-month immunization: Parents' and infants' salivary cortisol response in relation to the use of pacifier and oral glucose

European Journal of Pain

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 202-208

  Mörelius, Evalotte ^a   Theodorsson, Elvar ^a   Nelson, Nina ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Cry; Glucose; Immunization; Infant; Pain; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTISONE; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PACIFIER; PARENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA LEVEL; SELF REPORT; SWEETNESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

CRYING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PARENTS; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 58149353017     PISSN: 10903801     EISSN: 15322149     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2008.03.016     Document Type: Article

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