Minor illness and social behavior of infants and caregivers

Haskins, Ron; Hirschbiel, Paul O.; Collier, Albert M.; Sanyal, Margaret A.; Finkelstein, Neal W.

doi:10.1016/0193-3973(81)90033-2

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“…Indeed, children’s frequent experience with minor illnesses was a unique predictor of children’s social competence such that children who experienced more frequent illnesses displayed less prosocial behavior. This finding is supported by previous research which suggests that children are more irritable and less active when ill (Haskins et al, 1981; Mattsson & Weisberg, 1970). These types of behaviors may interfere with children’s ability to engage positively with those around them.…”

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“…It is likely that had parents provided reports of children’s illness experience the shared method variance between these constructs would have made it more difficult to examine their simultaneous impact on social functioning due to the possibility of parents misinterpreting a minor illness with general fussiness or negative temperament. Indeed, it is possible that parents’ ratings of temperament were influenced by the negative behavior (i.e., irritability, distress) children exhibit when they are sick (Haskins et al, 1981; Mattsson & Weisberg, 1970). Finally, mothers’ and fathers’ reports of children’s temperament and social behavior were composited to create more robust variables.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, research demonstrates that children with minor illnesses experience lower activity levels, fatigue, loss of appetite, increased irritability, and loss of age-appropriate behaviors during the time they were ill (Mattsson & Weisberg, 1970). Another study found that children experiencing minor illnesses accompanied by a fever also showed behavioral changes such as being less active and crying more (Haskins, Hirschbiel, Collier, Sanyal, & Finkelstein, 1981). Unlike children who suffer from chronic illnesses, children experiencing minor illnesses are often still attending school and attempting to navigate peer relationships while struggling with the previously mentioned symptoms; thus more directly affecting their social interactions.…”

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Minor Illnesses, Temperament, and Toddler Social Functioning

Kolak¹,

J.²,

Brown³

et al. 2013

Early Education & Development

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Research findings Minor illnesses, such as upper respiratory infections, stomachaches, and fevers, have been associated with children’s decreased activity and increased irritability. Mothers of children who are frequently ill report more child behavior problems; however, previous research in this area has yet to simultaneously examine children’s temperament. This investigation examined whether experience with recurrent, minor illnesses and negative emotionality worked together to predict young children’s social functioning. This multi-method study utilized a sample of 110 daycare-attending children. Nurses went to the daycare centers weekly to perform health screens on the participating children. Minor illness experience was represented using a proportion created by dividing the number of illness diagnoses by the total number of health screenings completed from the time the child was enrolled in the study through his or her second birthday. Toddlers’ negative emotionality and social behavior were assessed using mothers’ and fathers’ reports. The two dimensions of negative emotionality and minor illness experience operated in different ways such that anger worked additively with minor illness experience and fearfulness interacted with minor illness experience to predict social behavior. Children who were described as more temperamentally angry displayed less social competence especially when they also experienced high proportions of minor illness. Temperamentally fearful children exhibited more externalizing problems when they experienced a higher frequency of illness whereas fearfulness was not associated to externalizing problems for children who experienced low proportions of illness. Practice or Policy Children’s frequent experience with minor illnesses combined with negative emotionality appears to place toddlers at a heightened risk for exhibiting behavior problems. These findings have implications for child and family well-being as well as interactions with childcare providers and peers within childcare settings. Interventions could be developed to target “at risk” children.

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Minor Illnesses, Temperament, and Toddler Social Functioning

Kolak¹,

J.²,

Brown³

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Early Education & Development

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“…67, 76, 114-117 In addition, psychosocial behaviors such as tearfulness, dependency, 118119 and somatization 120-123123124 can elicit care from others when needed for recuperation. 36, 125-129 Various primates, 130 dogs, 131, 132 and cetaceans 133 naturally react to these care-eliciting behaviors 134 by adjusting travel pace, sharing food, or actively helping. 116, 130, 135 Because of the likely importance of inflammatory cytokines in influencing these behaviors during acute illness, it is theoretically plausible that in people with MDD they similarly help trigger these same behaviors.…”

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“…156 There is even some evidence that pre-existing elevation of IL-6 is associated with better antidepressant outcomes. 128, 129 Further complicating the picture, nor-adrenergic agents such as tricyclic antidepressants and mirtazepine -- but not selectively serotonergic antidepressants - may influence TNF-α. 157, 158158-162 Thus whether inflammatory cytokine levels can consistently be used to guide choice of antidepressant therapy remains unresolved.…”

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Inflammatory cytokine-associated depression

Lotrich

2015

Brain Research

152

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Inflammatory cytokines can sometimes trigger depression in humans, are often associated with depression, and can elicit some behaviors in animals that are homologous to major depression. Moreover, these cytokines can affect monoaminergic and glutamatergic systems, supporting an overlapping pathoetiology with major depression. This suggests that there could be a specific major depression subtype, inflammatory cytokine-associated depression (ICAD), which may require different therapeutic approaches. However, most people do not develop depression, even when exposed to sustained elevations in inflammatory cytokines. Thus several vulnerabilities and sources of resilience to inflammation-associated depression have been identified. These range from genetic differences in neurotrophic and serotonergic systems to sleep quality and omega-3 fatty acid levels. Replicating these sources of resilience as treatments could be one approach for preventing “ICAD”.

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A Psychosocial Model of Children’s Health Status

Bonner

Finney

1996

Advances in Clinical Child Psychology

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Minor illness and social behavior of infants and caregivers

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Minor Illnesses, Temperament, and Toddler Social Functioning

Minor Illnesses, Temperament, and Toddler Social Functioning

Inflammatory cytokine-associated depression

A Psychosocial Model of Children’s Health Status

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