Controls | Children with atopic disease | Mann–Whitney U test p value | ||
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During the seventh week | ||||
Fussing1-150 | 41 (19–75) | 72 (15–131) | 0.02 | |
Cry | Colic type1-151 | 4 (0–17) | 6 (0–19) | 0.35 |
Other1-151 | 24 (15–49) | 30 (15–45) | 0.71 | |
Total distress1-152 | 89 (47–124) | 115 (64–197) | 0.06 | |
During the twelfth week | ||||
Fussing1-150 | 21 (4–45) | 29 (11–66) | 0.13 | |
Cry | Colic type1-151 | 0 (0–5) | 5 (0–11) | 0.04 |
Other1-151 | 13 (2–22) | 14 (4–41) | 0.22 | |
Total distress1-152 | 43 (21–68) | 71 (24–109) | 0.12 |
↵1-150 Fussing was defined as a state of irritability, “not quite crying but not awake and content”.5
↵1-151 Other cry was defined as crying responsive to intervention (feeding, change of diaper, carrying, sucking a pacifier); colic type cry was defined as a cry not responsive to such an intervention.
↵1-152 The sum of colic type cry, other cry, and fussing reported by parents.