Korean Parent-Child Health Journal (부모자녀건강학회지)
- Volume 6 Issue 1
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- Pages.70-81
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- 2003
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- 1229-263X(pISSN)
A Study on Relation Ship Between the Mode of Feeding and the Occurrence of Otitis Media
수유양상과 중이염 발생과의 관계
- Baek, Ye-Young (Graduate School of Sahmyook University) ;
- Kim, Il-Ok (Dept. of Nursing, Sahmyook University)
- Published : 2003.06.30
Abstract
The otitis media has the highest rate of occurrence in 6-36 month after birth, and relatively high rate of occurrence to six years old. It is one of major cause for hearing loss problem because of its high rate of recurrence. The researcher observed at bed that feeding posture and feeding habit at night have some relationship with occurrence of otitis media. I found that medical research in this area was very weak, and it caused her to concentrate her research on the topic. This paper was undertook a retrospective case-control study to find out the relationship between the mode of feeding and the occurrence of otitis media among the otitis media patients and the healthy persons. As the controling groups, the researcher chose fifty eight mothers whose children received the treatment of otitis media(6-36 months after birth) from the pediatrics clinic of two general hospitals in Seoul, as the patient group, and forty five mothers who consulted with their child to well baby clinic at the general hospital and kindergarten in Seoul as the control group. The results of the survey can be summarized as followed : 1. "Otitis media patient group may have more lying posture mothers while feeding than the healthy control group". The first hypothesis is supported by the fact that the children who have lying posture feeding habit mothers are more easily exposed to otitis media than those who have sitting posture feeding habit mothers as the analysis show :