Inconsolable infant crying and maternal postpartum depressive symptoms

Pediatrics

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Radesky, Jenny S ^a   Zuckerman, Barry ^a   Silverstein, Michael ^a   Rivara, Frederick P ^b,c,d   Barr, Marilyn ^e   Taylor, James A ^b   Lengua, Liliana J ^c   Barr, Ronald G ^f  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colic; Crying; Maternal depression; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLIC; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCONSOLABLE INFANT CRYING; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARENTING EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PUERPERIUM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

COLIC; CRYING; MATERNAL DEPRESSION; PREVENTION;

COHORT STUDIES; CRYING; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTHERS; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; RANUNCULACEAE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84878710500     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-3316     Document Type: Article

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