Sleep/Wake States of Preterm Infants: Stability, Developmental Change, Diurnal Variation, and Relation with Caregiving Activity.

Ingersoll, Evan W.; Thoman, Evelyn B.

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ERIC Number: EJ591784

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Publication Date: 1999

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Sleep/Wake States of Preterm Infants: Stability, Developmental Change, Diurnal Variation, and Relation with Caregiving Activity.

Ingersoll, Evan W.; Thoman, Evelyn B.

Child Development, v70 n1 p1-10 Jan-Feb 1999

Used time-lapse video to record sleep/wake states of preterm infants for three 24-hour periods at 33 and 35 weeks conceptional age. Found that very-low-birthweight preterm infants showed marked stability and developmental change in the organization of sleep/wake states from a very early age, and their states were related to demographic variables and temporal measures of caregiving. (Author)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Birth Weight, Individual Development, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior, Infant Care, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Premature Infants, Sleep, Videotape Recordings

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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