Charting infant distress: an aid to defining colic.
The value of a 24-hour distress diary, previously validated against a voice-activated audiotape record, was investigated in 30 infants with colic and 30 control infants. The infants with colic had significantly more distress behavior (300.0 minutes vs 102.5 minutes; p < 0.001), although overlap of duration of distress was noted. On the basis of a clinical definition of colic--total distress lasting 180 minutes in a 24-hour period--the diary had a sensitivity of 77% and a specificity of 87%. The sensitivity of the chart was confirmed in a separate study of another 90 infants with colic.
Hill
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Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Menahem
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Hudson
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Sheffield
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Shelton
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Oberklaid
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Hosking
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D002652:Child Behavior; D003085:Colic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003448:Crying; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D010290:Parents