Publications by authors named "Fumie Fujita"
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- * The research included logistic regression analysis to evaluate how different nighttime responses, like immediately picking up the baby, influenced the likelihood of infants sleeping more during the day than at night.
- * Findings indicated that promptly picking up an infant can lead to longer daytime sleep, suggesting that such actions may interfere with the development of a healthy sleep-wake rhythm.
Peripartum depression is a common, serious complication in mothers. To assess the influence of infant care, sleep and growth on the risk of peripartum depression, 1,271 mothers of healthy one-month-old infants completed comprehensive questionnaires including the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale. Relationships between high depression scores and variables related to infants' care, sleep and growth were assessed adjusting for other variables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuman sleep-wake cycles are entrained by both natural and artificial light-dark cycles. However, little is known regarding when and how the photoperiod changes entrain the biological clock after conception. To investigate the dependence of sleep patterns in young infants on the natural and artificial light-dark cycles, 1,302 pairs of one-month-old infants and their mothers were asked to answer a questionnaire.
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