Maternal neurotic symptoms and infants' risk of developing persistent diarrhoea

A previously calculated predictive model for health risk selects infants who suffer 4-5 times more morbidity than their unselected peers. Preliminary results suggested that this risk is related to maternal neurotic symptomatology. To evaluate this hypothesis, 52 consecutive mothers whose infants had...

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Main Authors: Humphreys Derek, Araya Magdalena, Cruchet Sylvia, Espinoza Julio, Brunser Oscar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 1996-01-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89101996000300002