MOTHER-CHILD INTERACTIONS AND TRANSCUTANEOUS OXYGEN SATURATION OF PRETERM INFANTS WITH AND WITHOUT BRONCHOPULMONARY DYSPLASIA.
Contributors: University of Washington.
Published: 1995
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Psychology, Developmental.
Description: The purpose of this study was to compare mother child interactions and transcutaneous oxygen saturation (tcSaO$\sb2$) of 32 preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) at 3 months corrected age with that of 10 control preterm infants; and to describe selected correlations among clinical history, reported feeding practices, maternal rating of infant temperament, and mother child interactions. Mother child interactions were assessed during a teaching interaction (Nursing Child Assessment Teaching Scale) and a feeding interaction (Nursing Child Assessment Feeding Scale) in the infant's home. Mother child interactions were videotaped during concurrent measurement of tcSaO$\sb2$. The mother's perception of infant temperament was measured by the Bates Infant Characteristics Questionnaire. First, the mean tcSaO$\sb2$ values of BPD infants were not lower than that of healthy preterm infants at baseline or during the teaching and feeding interactions. The reported feeding practices of BPD infants did not differ from that of control infants. No signifiant differences were found between BPD and control groups during feeding interactions. Mother child interactions of BPD dyads during the teaching were less optimal than interactions of controls. Lower teaching interaction scores were significantly negatively correlated to the length of the infant's hospitalization. Finally, mothers rated the temperaments of their control infants more unpredictable than preterm infants with BPD.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-07, Section: B, page: 3689.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, 1995.

School code: 0250.