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Maternal mental health and engagement in developmental care activities with preterm infants in the NICU

OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between maternal mental health and involvement in developmental care in the NICU. STUDY DESIGN: Mothers of infants born <32 weeks gestation (n = 135) were approached to complete mental health screening questionnaires at two weeks after admission. Mothers who com...

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Autores principales: Dubner, Sarah E., Morales, Maya Chan, Marchman, Virginia A., Shaw, Richard J., Travis, Katherine E., Scala, Melissa
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group US 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10096104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37046070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41372-023-01661-0
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author Dubner, Sarah E.
Morales, Maya Chan
Marchman, Virginia A.
Shaw, Richard J.
Travis, Katherine E.
Scala, Melissa
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description OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between maternal mental health and involvement in developmental care in the NICU. STUDY DESIGN: Mothers of infants born <32 weeks gestation (n = 135) were approached to complete mental health screening questionnaires at two weeks after admission. Mothers who completed screening (n = 55) were further classified as with (n = 19) and without (n = 36) elevated scores. Mothers’ frequency, rate, and duration of developmental care activities were documented in the electronic health record. RESULTS: 35% of screened mothers scored above the cutoff for clinical concern on ≥1 measure. No significant differences between the 3 groups were identified for rates, frequency, or amount of all developmental care, kangaroo care, and swaddled holding. CONCLUSION: Elevated scores on maternal mental health questionnaires did not relate to developmental care. Maternal developmental care engagement may not indicate mental health status. Universal screening for psychological distress is required to accurately detect symptoms in mothers of hospitalized preterm infants.
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spelling pubmed-100961042023-04-14 Maternal mental health and engagement in developmental care activities with preterm infants in the NICU Dubner, Sarah E. Morales, Maya Chan Marchman, Virginia A. Shaw, Richard J. Travis, Katherine E. Scala, Melissa J Perinatol Article OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between maternal mental health and involvement in developmental care in the NICU. STUDY DESIGN: Mothers of infants born <32 weeks gestation (n = 135) were approached to complete mental health screening questionnaires at two weeks after admission. Mothers who completed screening (n = 55) were further classified as with (n = 19) and without (n = 36) elevated scores. Mothers’ frequency, rate, and duration of developmental care activities were documented in the electronic health record. RESULTS: 35% of screened mothers scored above the cutoff for clinical concern on ≥1 measure. No significant differences between the 3 groups were identified for rates, frequency, or amount of all developmental care, kangaroo care, and swaddled holding. CONCLUSION: Elevated scores on maternal mental health questionnaires did not relate to developmental care. Maternal developmental care engagement may not indicate mental health status. Universal screening for psychological distress is required to accurately detect symptoms in mothers of hospitalized preterm infants. Nature Publishing Group US 2023-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10096104/ /pubmed/37046070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41372-023-01661-0 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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