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Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 1970;1(1):16-25. doi: 10.1007/BF01434585.

Maternal perception of the neonate as related to development.

Child psychiatry and human development

E R Broussard, M S Hartner

Affiliations

  1. School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA.

PMID: 24178546 DOI: 10.1007/BF01434585

Abstract

One hundred and twenty, full-term, normal, first-born infants were categorized at one month of age into a high-risk or low-risk group for possible development of emotional and developmental deviations. The predictions were based on measurements of the mother's perception of her infant as compared to the average. At age 4 1/2, the children were evaluated by two child psychiatrists who had no knowledge of the children's predictive risk rating. A statistically significant association was evident between prediction and outcome. This paper describes the methodology and discusses the implications of the findings.

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