Management Of Baby Shak？ng Syndrome

Abstract All the behaviors which are done by an adult, society and state knowingly or unknowingly and influence child health and physical and psychosocial development of children negatively are accepted as child abuse. The Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) which is a form of child abuse is widespread and is applied by parents of babies whocry extremely. The main aim is to calm the baby. Therefore, the people who give careto the baby can develop a nerve mechanism against the baby. This leads to child abuse unavoidably. The caregiver of the baby usually hides the abuse history. Thus, therates of morbidity and mortality have a tendency of increasing in the late cases. SBSis a preventable problem. Improving family health is quite important in evidencebased and individualized care. Health professionals should identify the symptoms of shaken baby syndrome and inform the families in this issue. Shaken Baby Syndrome is still not known enough in our country. In this regard, this review was prepared to identify Shaken Baby Syndrome and to describe the attempts about the management of the problem