Background: Infants born prematurely experience more self-regulation problems in comparison to term infants. Increasing crying in premature infants can disrupt sleep and awaking pattern and it can increase stress. This study aimed to determine the effects of facilitated fetal tuckingon duration and frequency of crying amongpremature infants. Materials and Methods: This randomized, clinical tria...

BACKGROUND Although sucrose has been accepted as an effective analgesic agent for procedural pain in neonates, previous studies are largely in the NICU population using the procedure of heel lance. This is the first report of the effect of sucrose, pacifier or the combination thereof for the procedural pain of venipuncture in infants in the pediatric emergency department population. METHODS T...

This paper explores a fundamental similarity between cognitive models for crying and conceptions of insight, enlightenment or, in the context of art, "aesthetic experience." All of which center on a process of initial discrepancy, followed by schema change, and conclude in a proposed adjustment or "transformation" of one's self image/world-view. Because tears are argued to mark one of the only ...

Colic is generally defined as excessive crying in early infancy and can have negative consequences on the infant as well as on the infant's family life. Excessive crying can result in escalating parental stress levels, abusive caregiver response, increased risk of shaken baby syndrome and parental postpartum depression. In addition to excessive crying, symptoms and descriptors of infant colic i...

UNLABELLED Aim The aim of this study was to explore how nurses can support patients who are crying in a palliative home care context. BACKGROUND In palliative care the nurse has a central role in the team whose duty it is to create a sense of security and trust, as well as to give comfort and support the patients. The nurse's responsibility is to identify different needs of the patients for s...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aim of the study was to correlate the severity of poststroke pathological crying with lesion size and location. METHODS Twelve selected stroke patients were ranked in terms of overall clinical severity of the syndrome of pathological crying, and the size and location of the stroke lesion(s) were determined by magnetic resonance imaging. RESULTS The patients with t...