The Effectiveness of Mother Infant Interaction on infantile colic

Introduction: infantile colic has been defined as episodes of excessive and persistent crying without known medical cause. kangaroo mother care is a new method for case of newborn with several advantages. this study designed for evolution kmc and its effect on infantile colic. methods: this study is a randomized controlled trial, from 1th may 2008 to 1th may 2009 a total of 70 children, aged 3-12 weeks with persistent colic symptoms that referred to sheikh children hospital (clinic). normal mother-infant pairs were recruited at 3 to 12 weeks of age after obtaining baseline for two days. all cases divided randomly to kangaroo care and conventional care group. for analyzing the data we used 2-sample t test, x² test and fisher exact test. results: in the begining of study, the kangaroo care group had 3.5hr/d crying and after the intervention, it decreased to 1.7hr/d, the difference were significant (p<0.05). but there were no difference in feeding duration between 2 groups (p=0.2). awake and content (normal behavior) behaviors were significantly increased in the kangaroo care group (p=0.001). sleeping duration was significantly increased in the kangaroo care group (p=0.02). conclusion: kangaroo care may use as a simple and safe method for colicky infants treatment.