Mother-infant bonding during the early postnatal period in a sample of Chinese primiparous mothers
- DOI
- 10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.4How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Maternal bonding, Mental health, Postpartum
- Abstract
This study aims to investigation the mother-infant bonding impairment among Chinese primiparous mothers in the early postpartum period. Totally, there were 119 primiparous mothers were conveniently recruited at the 42 days postpartum from a local hospital in Wuhan, China. Data on the social-demographic characteristics, clinical information, prenatal depressive and anxious mood, and mother-infant bonding were collected using a self-designed basic information questionnaire and the Chinese-version of Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire(C-PBQ). The results showed that the total score of C-PBQ was 14.62±10.35. The prevalence of reported mild bonding disturbances and potential rejections of infants were 21.8% and 1.68%, respectively, while no one reported explicit rejections. During pregnancy, only 5.0% of women experienced depressive mood, while 11.8% with anxiety. Although a higher score of C-PBQ was observed in women with prenatal anxiety compared to those without (P<0.05), no significant effects of anxiety during pregnancy on the mother-infant bonding was found based on the regression analysis. Therefore, close attention should be paid to mother-infant bonding impairment for Chinese new mother in the early postpartum period. Investigating methods to enhance perinatal maternal bonding and reducing anxiety in pregnancy is needed.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Chong Zhang AU - Si-min Xiong AU - Jun-min Luo AU - Rong Nie PY - 2019/05 DA - 2019/05 TI - Mother-infant bonding during the early postnatal period in a sample of Chinese primiparous mothers BT - Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 13 EP - 18 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.4 DO - 10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.4 ID - Zhang2019/05 ER -