Psychological determinants of infantile pyloric stenosis.
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Psychological determinants of infantile pyloric stenosis.
In order to investigate the possible contribution of maternal emotional stress to the aetiology of infantile pyloric stenosis, 100 mothers of affected infants, 100 "normal" controls who had not sought medical advice at any time concerning feeding problems, and 50 mothers of children with spina bifida were interviewed. All completed the Life Events Inventory, which gives a quantitative measureme...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.53.1.66