KANGAROO CARE

PEDIATRICS Vol. 102 No. 2 August 1998, p. e17

Kangaroo Mother Care and the Bonding Hypothesis

From the *School of Psychology, Laval University, Québec, Canada; ISS-World Lab, Kangaroo Mother Care Program, Clinica del Nino, Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia; Ôø‡ Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Javeriana University, Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia; and EVAL (Institut pour l'Évaluation dans le domaine Médical, Médico-social et de Santé Publique), Paris, France.

TABLE 4

	Delay 1 (1-2 Days)		Delay 2 (3-14 Days)		Delay 3 (> 14 Days)
	KMC (n = 100)	TC (n = 70)	KMC (n = 92)	TC (n = 85)	KMC (n = 50)	TC (n = 91)
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Mothers' perception	(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)	(f)
Sense of competence	.26  ± .95	.15  ± .82	.15  ± 1.0	.10  ± 1.2	.09  ± 1.2	.12  ± .85	ace > bdf**1
Stress and worry	.06  ± 1.0	.25  ± .77	.12  ± .97	.03  ± .97	.05  ± 1.1	.24  ± 1.3	f > d > b*3 f > e*3
Social support	.10  ± 1.0	.04  ± .93	.03  ± .98	.09  ± .93	.15  ± 1.2	.32  ± .77	ace < bdf*1 f > e*3
Mothers' sensitivity
Sensitivity	.73  ± .11	.71  ± .13	.72  ± .12	.73  ± .13	.75  ± .12	.69  ± .15	ace > bdf*1 e > f*3
Response to distress	.87  ± .16	.90  ± .14	.92  ± .13	.91  ± .15	.88  ± .15	.87  ± .16	cd > ab = ef*2
Socioemotional growth fostering	.57  ± .16	.56  ± .16	.59  ± .15	.61  ± .15	.60  ± .15	.55  ± .15
Cognitive fostering	.30  ± .20	.28  ± .17	.31  ± .19	.35  ± .21	.37  ± .20	.30  ± .19	e > f*3
Child's clarity of cues	.64  ± .15	.63  ± .15	.64  ± .14	.62  ± .18	.64  ± .13	.64  ± .14
Child's responsivity	.29  ± .14	.31  ± .15	.31  ± .12	.29  ± .13	.33  ± .12	.28  ± .11
(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) Represent group means.
* P < .05;
** P < .01;
*** P < .001; t < .10. 1 Group effect; 2 delay effect; 3 interaction effect.
Pediatrics (ISSN 0031 4005). © ©1998 by the American Academy of Pediatrics

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