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An analysis of the very high level of maternal distress experienced by South Korean women with young children
This study was conducted as a part of a larger study to identify the needs of a maternal and early childhood home visit program that the South Korean central government has begun to expand nationwide. This survey measured the distress of mothers with children aged 2 years or younger during the trans...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9491576/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36129903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274016 |
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author | Lee, Ji Yun Park, Sae Eun Kim, Yu-Mi Cho, Hong-Jun Khang, Young-Ho |
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description | This study was conducted as a part of a larger study to identify the needs of a maternal and early childhood home visit program that the South Korean central government has begun to expand nationwide. This survey measured the distress of mothers with children aged 2 years or younger during the transition into motherhood using the Being a Mother scale (BaM-13) and compared the stress levels for each question with those of existing studies in other countries. The survey results revealed that the mean BaM-13 score of the 350 participants was 17.09 (SD = 6.81), with 87.7% showing very high levels of maternal distress, indicated by a score of 9 or above in BaM-13. The item from the BaM-13 with the highest response rate of 2 or 3 points (sum of the percentage of those who answered 2 and 3 points) was “I have missed the life I had before I became pregnant with this baby/toddler,” to which 80.8% of the respondents agreed. The percentage of South Korean mothers who answered 2 or 3 points was higher for every item on the BaM-13 than that of Australian mothers. A comparison of the total BaM-13 score and 3 factors (child experience, adult’s experience, and emotional closeness) of the BaM-13 according to the participants’ characteristics revealed that discrepancies in women’s sociodemographic factors (including smoking and alcohol consumption behaviors) were not significant, whereas differences in the total BaM-13 score and the 3 factors of the BaM-13 according to the mothers’ scores on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale were noticeable. The high level of maternal distress observed in this study should be reflected in the nurse-led maternal and early childhood home visit program that the South Korean central government is expanding across the country. |
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spelling | pubmed-94915762022-09-22 An analysis of the very high level of maternal distress experienced by South Korean women with young children Lee, Ji Yun Park, Sae Eun Kim, Yu-Mi Cho, Hong-Jun Khang, Young-Ho PLoS One Research Article This study was conducted as a part of a larger study to identify the needs of a maternal and early childhood home visit program that the South Korean central government has begun to expand nationwide. This survey measured the distress of mothers with children aged 2 years or younger during the transition into motherhood using the Being a Mother scale (BaM-13) and compared the stress levels for each question with those of existing studies in other countries. The survey results revealed that the mean BaM-13 score of the 350 participants was 17.09 (SD = 6.81), with 87.7% showing very high levels of maternal distress, indicated by a score of 9 or above in BaM-13. The item from the BaM-13 with the highest response rate of 2 or 3 points (sum of the percentage of those who answered 2 and 3 points) was “I have missed the life I had before I became pregnant with this baby/toddler,” to which 80.8% of the respondents agreed. The percentage of South Korean mothers who answered 2 or 3 points was higher for every item on the BaM-13 than that of Australian mothers. A comparison of the total BaM-13 score and 3 factors (child experience, adult’s experience, and emotional closeness) of the BaM-13 according to the participants’ characteristics revealed that discrepancies in women’s sociodemographic factors (including smoking and alcohol consumption behaviors) were not significant, whereas differences in the total BaM-13 score and the 3 factors of the BaM-13 according to the mothers’ scores on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale were noticeable. The high level of maternal distress observed in this study should be reflected in the nurse-led maternal and early childhood home visit program that the South Korean central government is expanding across the country. Public Library of Science 2022-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9491576/ /pubmed/36129903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274016 Text en © 2022 Lee et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lee, Ji Yun Park, Sae Eun Kim, Yu-Mi Cho, Hong-Jun Khang, Young-Ho An analysis of the very high level of maternal distress experienced by South Korean women with young children |
title | An analysis of the very high level of maternal distress experienced by South Korean women with young children |
title_full | An analysis of the very high level of maternal distress experienced by South Korean women with young children |
title_fullStr | An analysis of the very high level of maternal distress experienced by South Korean women with young children |
title_full_unstemmed | An analysis of the very high level of maternal distress experienced by South Korean women with young children |
title_short | An analysis of the very high level of maternal distress experienced by South Korean women with young children |
title_sort | analysis of the very high level of maternal distress experienced by south korean women with young children |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9491576/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36129903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274016 |
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