Nonsynostotic plagiocephaly: a child health care intervention in Skaraborg, Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim was to evaluate the intervention's effect on prevention and reversal of nonsynostotic plagiocephaly.

Methods

Thirty-eight intervention group nurses were educated about nonsynostotic plagiocephaly and asked to follow guidelines; 18 control group nurses were not. In a longitudinal single-blinded clinical intervention, parents brought infants to well-child visits according to the national schedule. Cranial shape was assessed in 176 intervention and 92 control group infants at 2-, 4-, and 12-month visits.

Results

Asymmetry at two months reversed by four months four times more often in intervention than control subgroup infants (OR = 4.07, p = 0.02) when adjusted for parent awareness of written information from their nurse. Asymmetry at two months revers

SUBMITTER: Lennartsson F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6364473 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature