Crying in the first 12 months of life: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-country parent-reported data and modeling of the “cry curve”

Arnault-Quentin Vermillet; Katrine Bønneland Tølbøll; Samouil Litsis  Mizan; Joshua Skewes; Christine Parsons

doi:10.1111/cdev.13760

Crying in the first 12 months of life: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-country parent-reported data and modeling of the “cry curve”

Arnault-Quentin Vermillet, Katrine Bønneland Tølbøll, Samouil Litsis Mizan, Joshua Skewes, Christine Parsons^*

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Department of Clinical Medicine - Interacting Minds Centre (IMC)
School of Communication and Culture - Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics

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Abstract

Crying is an ubiquitous communicative signal in infancy. This meta-analysis synthesizes data on parent-reported infant cry durations from 17 countries and 57 studies until infant age 12 months (N = 7580, 54% female from k = 44; majority White samples, where reported, k = 18), from studies before the end Sept. 2020. Most studies were conducted in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada (k = 32), and at the traditional cry “peak” (age 5–6 weeks), where the pooled estimate for cry and fuss duration was 126 mins (SD = 61), with high heterogeneity. Formal modeling of the meta-analytic data suggests that the duration of crying remains substantial in the first year of life, after an initial decline.

Original language	English
Journal	Child Development
Volume	93
Issue	4
Pages (from-to)	1201-1222
Number of pages	22
ISSN	0009-3920
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13760
Publication status	Published - Jul 2022

Keywords

Canada
Crying
Female
Humans
Infant
Irritable Mood
Male
Parents
Research Design

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Crying in the first 12 months of life: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-country parent-reported data and modeling of the “cry curve”. / Vermillet, Arnault-Quentin ; Tølbøll, Katrine Bønneland; Mizan, Samouil Litsis et al.
In: Child Development, Vol. 93, No. 4, 07.2022, p. 1201-1222.

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