[Stimulation at home and psychological profile of mothers of children with or without weight loss during the first 15 days of life].
OBJECTIVE
To determine the possible difference of the microenvironment of a group of children who lost weight in their first 15 days of life.


METHODS
Longitudinal ecological study of growth and development of a total cohort of all children born during a calendar year.


METHODS
Rural village of Central Mexico.


METHODS
A group of sixteen children, who fifteen days after birth and without apparent reason, showed a decrease in weight as compared with weight at birth, they were compared with a control group from the same population and matched, case by case, according to gestation age, height at the time of birth, and body weight.


RESULTS
To assess the influence of microenvironmental factors two indicators were used. Recording and scoring of maternal behavior was done by adaptation to local conditions by Cravioto et al, of the Maternal Behavior Profile developed by Nancy Bayley. The instrument used for estimating home stimulation was the inventory developed by Caldwell design to sample certain aspects of the quantity and/quality of social, emotional, and cognitive stimulation available to a young child within his home. No significant differences were found in relation to Maternal Behavior Profile and Home Stimulation in the two groups studied (statistical differences, P greater than 0.05).


CONCLUSIONS
Data from present study contribute to the claim that systematic stimulation in the home and an adequate interrelation mother-child are among the main elements necessary for the proper development of the child.
Bravo
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Instituto Nacional de Ciencias y Tecnologia, Sistema Nacional para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia, México, D.F.
Cravioto
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J
Cravioto
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P
Fernández
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G
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012423:Rural Health; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D015431:Weight Loss
Estimulación en el hogar y perfil psicológico de madres de niños con y sin pérdida de peso en los primeros quince dias de vida.