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Infant sleep training. Sleep training (sometimes known as sleep coaching) is a set of parental (or caregiver) intervention techniques with the end goal of increasing nightly sleep in infants and young children, addressing “sleep concerns”, and decreasing nightime signalling. Although the diagnostic criteria for sleep issues in infants is ...
Ferber method. The Ferber method, or Ferberization, is a technique invented by Richard Ferber to solve infant sleep problems. It involves "sleep-training" children to self-soothe by allowing the child to cry for a predetermined amount of time at intervals before receiving external comfort.
The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index ( PSQI) is a self-report questionnaire that assesses sleep quality over a 1-month time interval. The measure consists of 19 individual items, creating 7 components that produce one global score, and takes 5–10 minutes to complete. [1] Developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, [2] the PSQI is ...
A 10-month-girl police said was abducted from a New Mexico park Friday after the death of her mother and another woman has been found and a suspect is in custody, the FBI announced Monday morning.
SIDS was the third leading cause of death in children less than one year old in the United States in 2011. [13] It is the most common cause of death between one month and one year of age. [1] About 90% of cases happen before six months of age, with it being most frequent between two months and four months of age.
A 32-year-old Philadelphia woman is facing charges after officials say she her 10-month-old son died from an overdose.
Child development stages are the theoretical milestones of child development, some of which are asserted in nativist theories. This article discusses the most widely accepted developmental stages in children. There exists a wide variation in terms of what is considered "normal", caused by variations in genetic, cognitive, physical, family, cultural, nutritional, educational, and environmental ...
Regression analysis. Ridge regression is a method of estimating the coefficients of multiple- regression models in scenarios where the independent variables are highly correlated. [1] It has been used in many fields including econometrics, chemistry, and engineering. [2] Also known as Tikhonov regularization, named for Andrey Tikhonov, it is a ...