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- Factitious Disorder
- Munchausen syndrome
- Factitious Disorder NOS
- factitious disorder by proxy
- Child abuse and Munchausen syndrome by proxy were investigated by a team of British researchers using covert video surveillance in 39 infants with recurrent apneic or cyanotic episodes suspected to have been caused by abuse (Southall et al., 1997): abuse was identified in 33 of 39 cases, 30 had been intentionally suffocated. Two major clues helped identify abuse: 1) bleeding from the nose or mouth [11 monitored children vs. no control cases], 2) findings that other siblings had died unexpectedly [12 of the 41 siblings of monitored children had died suddenly].
- Southall, D.P. et al. (1997). Covert video recordings of life-threatening child abuse: Lessons for child protection. Pediatrics, 100, 735-760.
- Malingering