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| العنوان: |
The Quechua Manta Pouch: A Caretaking Practice for Buffering the Peruvian Infant Against the Multiple Stressors of High Altitude. |
| المؤلفون: |
Tronick, E. Z., Thomas, R. B., Daltabuit, M. |
| المصدر: |
Child Development; Aug1994, Vol. 65 Issue 4, p1005-1013, 9p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
INFANTS, MOTHERS, INFANT health services, HUMIDITY, CHILDREN, TEMPERATURE |
| مستخلص: |
The manta pouch -- a caretaking practice of tightly swaddling and enclosing the infant in a set of cloths and blankets -- and other caretaking practices are described for high-altitude resident (> 4,000 m) Quechua mother-infant pairs (N = 14). The manta pouch modifies the microenvironment inside the pouch so that, compared to the ambient environment, the temperature is higher and more stable, the humidity is higher, the partial pressure of O2 is lower, and stimulation levels are reduced. As the infant gets older, the characteristics of the pouch are modified such that the infant is increasingly exposed to ambient conditions. These caretaking practices may benefit the infant by buffering the infant from the multiple ecological stressors of high altitude, but they may also incur costs by exposing the infant to additional microenvironmental stressors (e.g., higher CO2 levels) and by reducing stimulation and limiting infant movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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