Development in mother-infant en face interaction of high-risk newborn infants: a longitudinal follow-up from 0 to 7 months.
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.
Kashiwagi
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Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan.
Shirataki
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D002657:Child Development; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009043:Motor Activity; D011247:Pregnancy; D018566:Pregnancy, High-Risk; D014741:Video Recording