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Backgroud and aims: To analyse infantile (birth characteristics, feeding type) and environmental (maternal smoking, nutrition and psychological status, mother-child bonding, family structure, support to mother, familial atopy) risk factors for infantile colic and to follow up infants with respect to physical growth, slee** status up to 8 months of age in a nested case-control study.
Methods: 660 mothers who delivered at Dr. Zekai Tahir Burak Maternity Hospital, were enrolled within postpartum 3-72 hours. Infants with insolablepersistant crying and subsequent four infants with no crying episodes were invited to Hacettepe University Ihsan Dogramaci Children's Hospital at postpartum 30-45 days by phone. At postpartum 40-55 days, infants were examined; 47 infants were diagnosed as colic cases and 142 as noncolic. When the infants were 7-8 month old, another interview was done.
Results: Colic group had higher percentages of less educated (≤8 years) and smoking mothers, extended family, families with domestic violence than noncolic group. Colic group had significantly higher rates of “impaired bonding” in Postpartum Bonding Questionaire, higher scores of Edinburg Postpartum Depression Scale, higher scores for hostility subscales of Brief Symptom Inventory and more irregular sleep pattern than noncolic group. At 7-8 months, colic group was shorter than noncolic group.
Conclusion: Colic was associated with some perinatal factors (maternal education, smoking habits, cheese consumption, hostility scores and domestic violence) and having infantile colic had negatively affected slee** pattern and height of infant.
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Yalcin, S., Orun, E., Mutlu, B. et al. 1279 A Nested Case-Control Study for Risk Factors of Infantile Colic. Pediatr Res 68 (Suppl 1), 633–634 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-201011001-01279
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