Childbirth and the Development of Acute Trauma Symptoms: Incidence and Contributing Factors

Creedy, Debra; Shochet, Ian M.; Horsfall, Jan

doi:10.1046/j.1523-536x.2000.00104.x

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“…Lack of supportive care is also associated with postnatal PTSD (Soet, Brack, & Dilorio, 2003;Creedy et al, 2000;Czarnocka & Slade, 2000;Wijma, Soderquist, & Wijma, 1997). A pertinent issue here is that positive support and lack of support are likely to have different effects.…”

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“…On the one hand, there is evidence that women who suffer extreme complications, such as stillbirth or life threatening events, during pregnancy and labour are at greater risk of developing PTSD. Research also suggests that assisted delivery or emergency caesarean section can increase risk of PTSD (Ayers, Harris, Sawyer, Parfitt, & Ford, 2009;Creedy, Schochet, & Horsfall, 2000;Maclean, McDermott, & May, 2000;Soderquist, Wijma, & Wijma, 2002). On the other hand, studies that examine the relative importance of obstetric and subjective experiences clearly show subjective experience is more important in postnatal PTSD.…”

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Fear of childbirth, postnatal post-traumatic stress disorder and midwifery care

Ayers

2014

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Fear of childbirth, postnatal post-traumatic stress disorder and midwifery care

Ayers

2014

Midwifery

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“…Moreover, infants typically exhibit a developmental trend from a preference for looking which results in clinical symptoms of PTSD (Creedy, Shochet & Horsfall, 2000;Czarnocka & Slade, 2000). Moreover, the mother-infant relationship is affected by maternal symptoms of PTSD (Davies, Slade, Wright & Stewart, 2008;McDonald, Slade, Spiby & Iles, 2011) and PND (Edhborg, Lundh, Seimyr & Widstorm, 2001;Murray, 1992;Murray, Fiori-Cowley, Hooper & Cooper, 1996;Taylor, Atkins, Kumar, Adams & Glover, 2005).…”

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Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health

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Infant Behavior and Development

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Early infant interest in their mother's face is driven by an experience based face processing system, and is associated with maternal psychological health, even within a non clinical community sample. The present study examined the role of the voice in eliciting infants' interest in mother and stranger faces and in the association between infant face interest and maternal psychological health.Infants aged 3.5-months were shown photographs of their mother's and a stranger's face paired with an audio recording of their mother's and a stranger's voice that was either matched (e.g., mother's face and voice) or mismatched (e.g., mother's face and stranger's voice). Infants spent more time attending to the stranger's matched face and voice than the mother's matched face and voice and the mismatched faces and voices. Thus, infants demonstrated an earlier preference for a stranger's face when given voice information than when the face is presented alone. In the present sample, maternal psychological health varied with 56.7% of mothers reporting mild mood symptoms (depression, anxiety or stress response to childbirth). Infants of mothers with significant mild maternal mood symptoms looked longer at the faces and voices compared to infants of mothers who did not report mild maternal mood symptoms. In sum, infants' experience based face processing system is sensitive to their mothers' maternal psychological health and the multimodal nature of faces. Early infant interest in their mother's face is driven by an experience based face processing system, and is associated with maternal psychological health, even within a non clinical community sample. The present study examined the role of the voice in eliciting infants' interest in mother and stranger faces and in the association between infant face interest and maternal psychological health.Infants aged 3.5-months were shown photographs of their mother's and a stranger's face paired with an audio recording of their mother's and a stranger's voice that was either matched (e.g., mother's face and voice) or mismatched (e.g., mother's face and stranger's voice). Infants spent more time attending to the stranger's matched face and voice than the mother's matched face and voice and the mismatched faces and voices. Thus, infants demonstrated an earlier preference for a stranger's face when given voice information than when the face is presented alone. In the present sample, maternal psychological health varied with 56.7% of mothers reporting mild mood symptoms (depression, anxiety or stress response to childbirth). Infants of mothers with significant mild maternal mood symptoms looked longer at the faces and voices compared to infants of mothers who did not report mild maternal mood symptoms. In sum, infants' experience based face processing system is sensitive to their mothers' maternal psychological health and the multimodal nature of faces.

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“…Surgical intervention during labour and delivery, particularly assisted vaginal delivery or emergency caesarean section, are related to appraisal of birth as traumatic (Ayers, 1999;Soet et al, 2003) and symptoms of PTSD in some studies (Creedy, Shochet, & Horsfall, 2000;MacLean, McDermott, & May, 2000;Soderquist et al, 2002). However, other studies find no influence of type of delivery on subjective distress (Skari, Skreden, Malt et al, 2002) or PTSD symptoms (Ayers, 1999;Czarnocka & Slade, 2000).…”

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“…A review found that variables such as personal expectations, the amount of support from caregivers, the quality of the caregiver-patient relationship, and involvement in decision making were more important than the birth environment, pain, immobility, medical interventions, and continuity of care in determining women's evaluations of their birth experience (Hodnett, 2002). Limited evidence suggests support during birth is associated with less anxiety and depression in the postnatal period (Scott et al, 1999); and a perceived lack of support from healthcare professionals during birth has been associated with symptoms of PTSD following birth (Creedy et al, 2000;Czarnocka & Slade, 2000). These findings suggest that support from caregivers during birth may have a strong affect on women's emotional, anxiety and trauma reactions following childbirth.…”

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