Development in mother-infant en face interaction of high-risk newborn infants: A longitudinal follow-up from 0 to 7 months

Author(s): Shirataki, S.

Journal/Book: Early Hum Dev. 1995; 43: Customer Relations Manager, Bay 15, Shannon Industrial, Estate Co, Clare, Ireland. Elsevier Sci Publ Ireland Ltd. 245-270.

Abstract: In order to evaluate mother-infant en face interaction of high-risk infants and their mothers, we followed three dyads from a high-risk group and three dyads from a low-risk group, every 3 weeks from 0 to 30 weeks of corrected postnatal age. The mother-infant en face interaction was analyzed by conditional probability analysis with a lag sequential concept. The main findings of this study were: (1) there was almost no clear difference in the amount of movement between the high-risk group infants and the low-risk group infants; (2) behavioral responsiveness of the high-risk group dyads was unclear, however, behavioral responsiveness of the low-risk group dyads was very clear; and (3) in common to all subjects of the low-risk group, an increasing frequency of responsive mother-infant interaction was found during the postnatal period. However, in the high-risk group, each dyad showed a very different developmental course. The findings suggest qualitative differences in mother-infant en face interactions between the high-risk group dyads and the low-risk group dyads.

Note: Article H Kashiwagi, Kobe Univ, Sch Med, Dept Neurol, Chuo Ku, Kusunoki CHO, Kobe 650, Japan

Keyword(s): high-risk newborn infant; mother-infant en face interaction; longitudinal followup; conditional probability analysis; lag sequential concept; LOW-BIRTH-WEIGHT; HEALTH; STATISTICS; CHILDREN; AGE

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