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  • Title: Mother-child separation: a study in a remote health care setting.
    Author: Higgins C, Dunn E, Conrath D.
    Journal: Can Med Assoc J; 1981 Nov 15; 125(10):1114-7. PubMed ID: 7326642.
    Abstract:
    The literature indicates that the birth of a sibling and the consequent temporary separation from the mother is usually a stressful experience for a child. It was hypothesized that this stress would result in an increased number of visits by the child to health care facilities because of new health problems. In a controlled study of 89 matched pairs of Indian families in a remote region of northwestern Ontario this hypothesis was not supported. During the intervals studied - the anticipatory period before delivery, the separation itself and the period immediately following the mother's return home - the number of diagnoses of new medical problems was significantly less for the children who were separated from their mothers for the birth of a sibling. As well, the number of diagnoses of new medical problems in the children separated form their mothers decreased over the three intervals. The fathers' reluctance to seek health care probably played a major role in this decrease.
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