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The role of pregnancy acceptability in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy
BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is an important time for women’s mental health and marks the foundations of the emerging bond between mother and baby. This study aimed to investigate the role of pregnancy acceptability and intendedness in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy. METHODS: Data were...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8966290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35351015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04558-6 |
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author | McNamara, Josephine Risi, Alixandra Bird, Amy L. Townsend, Michelle L. Herbert, Jane S. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is an important time for women’s mental health and marks the foundations of the emerging bond between mother and baby. This study aimed to investigate the role of pregnancy acceptability and intendedness in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy. METHODS: Data were collected from a community sample of 116 Australian pregnant women (M = 29.54, SD = 5.31) through a series of self-report questionnaires pertaining to mental health and antenatal bonding. RESULTS: Lower pregnancy acceptability was correlated with higher depression, anxiety and total distress, lower physical and environmental quality of life and lower antenatal bonding. Women who reported their pregnancy was intended reported higher physical quality of life than those who reported their pregnancy was unintended. The relationship between total distress and antenatal bonding was moderated by women’s degree of pregnancy acceptability (low versus high). For women with low acceptability, higher distress was associated with lower bonding, but there was no such association for women with high pregnancy acceptability. The moderation model examining associations between distress and pregnancy acceptability explained 15% of the variance in antenatal bonding scores. CONCLUSION: Consideration of women’s appraisal of their pregnancy acceptability may provide a valuable framework for identifying individuals who may be at risk for mental health and bonding difficulties. |
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spelling | pubmed-89662902022-03-31 The role of pregnancy acceptability in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy McNamara, Josephine Risi, Alixandra Bird, Amy L. Townsend, Michelle L. Herbert, Jane S. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth Research BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is an important time for women’s mental health and marks the foundations of the emerging bond between mother and baby. This study aimed to investigate the role of pregnancy acceptability and intendedness in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy. METHODS: Data were collected from a community sample of 116 Australian pregnant women (M = 29.54, SD = 5.31) through a series of self-report questionnaires pertaining to mental health and antenatal bonding. RESULTS: Lower pregnancy acceptability was correlated with higher depression, anxiety and total distress, lower physical and environmental quality of life and lower antenatal bonding. Women who reported their pregnancy was intended reported higher physical quality of life than those who reported their pregnancy was unintended. The relationship between total distress and antenatal bonding was moderated by women’s degree of pregnancy acceptability (low versus high). For women with low acceptability, higher distress was associated with lower bonding, but there was no such association for women with high pregnancy acceptability. The moderation model examining associations between distress and pregnancy acceptability explained 15% of the variance in antenatal bonding scores. CONCLUSION: Consideration of women’s appraisal of their pregnancy acceptability may provide a valuable framework for identifying individuals who may be at risk for mental health and bonding difficulties. BioMed Central 2022-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8966290/ /pubmed/35351015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04558-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research McNamara, Josephine Risi, Alixandra Bird, Amy L. Townsend, Michelle L. Herbert, Jane S. The role of pregnancy acceptability in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy |
title | The role of pregnancy acceptability in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy |
title_full | The role of pregnancy acceptability in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy |
title_fullStr | The role of pregnancy acceptability in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of pregnancy acceptability in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy |
title_short | The role of pregnancy acceptability in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy |
title_sort | role of pregnancy acceptability in maternal mental health and bonding during pregnancy |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8966290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35351015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04558-6 |
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