Sucking and Swallowing in Infants and Diagnostic Tools
Journal of Perinatology
da Costa, S. P., van den Engel-Hoek, L., et al. (2008).
Journal of Perinatology, 28(4), 247-257.
This systematic review investigates the development of sucking and swallowing in infants, diagnostic tools to assess the coordination of sucking, swallowing, and breathing, and prognostic impacts of poor sucking and swallowing on later neurodevelopmental outcomes.
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1995 to 2006
Published studies (not further specified)
50
<div>Several research tools have been developed to assess sucking behavior; however these tools are limited to the measurement of only a subset of relevant aspects of sucking behavior and to assessment of only bottle feeding or breastfeeding, but not both. These tools also require expensive/complicated measuring equipment. The research supporting these tools has been conducted with a small sample size and often without a control group or validity testing. There is a need for the development of a user-friendly, reliable, and noninvasive tool to assess breastfeeding and bottle feeding in infants.</div>
