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Tools assessment and diagnosis to infant colic: a systematic review

S García Marqués1, R Chillón Martínez1, S González Zapata1,2

  • 1Physical Therapy Department, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.

Child: Care, Health and Development
|March 7, 2017
PubMed

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Assessing infant colic is challenging due to limited diagnostic tools. This review identified four existing infant colic assessment tools, highlighting the need for new, validated scales.

Area of Science:

  • Pediatrics
  • Neonatology
  • Child Health

Background:

  • Infant colic affects 10-40% of healthy infants in their first year.
  • Accurate assessment and diagnosis of infant colic are complex.
  • Limited validated instruments exist for infant colic evaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically review existing assessment tools for infant colic.
  • To identify current methods for diagnosing and evaluating infant colic in clinical practice.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review of scientific literature.
  • Searches conducted across multiple databases (PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane, etc.).
  • Independent data extraction and risk of bias assessment using Cochrane Collaboration guidelines and EMPRO scale.

Main Results:

  • Four infant colic assessment tools were identified: Parental diary, Crying Pattern Questionnaire, Infant Colic Scale, and its Turkish version.
  • The review evaluated the existing instruments for their utility in assessing infant colic.

Conclusions:

  • Current assessment tools for infant colic are insufficient.
  • There is a critical need to design and validate novel assessment scales for infant colic.
Abstract

Keywords:
assessmentdiagnostic toolexcessively cryinginfantile colicreliabilityvalidity

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