Maternity Blues and Attachment to Children in Mothers of Full-Term Normal Infants

Nagata, Michio; Nagai, Yukiyo; Sobajima, Hisanori; Ando, Tomoko; Nishide, Yoshiya; Honjo, Satoshi

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“…Using the definition of MB by Pitt (1968Pitt ( , 1973, the prevalence of MB in our study is 13.1% (core MB Group). In reports from European countries and the USA, the prevalence rates of MB have varied from 10% to 70%, and the prevalence can be remarkably high (Aguado, Moreno, & Palacio, 1996;Cox, Connor, & Kendell, 1982;Dalton, 1971;Kumar & Robson, 1984;Nagata et al, 2000;Rondon, 2003;Yamashita, Yoshida, Nakano, & Tashiro, 2000). Studies on postnatal depression, which is a later, more prolonged and more serious condition than the transient experience of MB, showed a prevalence of 10 -15% (Cooper & Murray, 1995, 1998Cox et al, 1987;Harris, Huckle, Thomas, Johns, & Fung, 1989;Kumar & Robson, 1984;O'Hara & Swain, 1996).…”

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Postnatal depressive mood in Turkish women

ÖZDEMİR

Ergin

Selimoğlu³

et al. 2005

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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The aim of this study was measure the prevalence and influencing factors of depressive mood after delivery. We performed this study on 912 women who gave birth at Maternity Hospital in Bursa/ Turkey. We used Zung's Self-Rating Depression Scale (ZSDS) and a questionnaire in order to obtain the women's backgrounds and the possible risk factor characteristics. The ZSDS and questionnaire were filled out within 1 week after the delivery, by means of face-to-face interviews at the hospital, and 1 month after delivery all the women were visited at their homes and the ZSDS was performed again. In our study, 18% of the mothers (164/912) scored 60 and over in the ZSDS 1 week after childbirth. This percentage had fallen to 9.8% (89/912) 1 month after childbirth. The prevalence of maternity blues in our study was 13.1%. In terms of depression, we found no significant differences regarding age, fertility characteristics, length of labor, residence after childbirth, help after childbirth, breastfeeding practices and the health of the baby. Low educational and economic levels were found to be effective factors in postnatal mood for our population. They may also be risk factors for postnatal depression.

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Postnatal depressive mood in Turkish women

ÖZDEMİR

Ergin

Selimoğlu³

et al. 2005

Psychology, Health & Medicine

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“…Anxiety during pregnancy is the most significant predictor of postpartum anxiety and depression (Heron et al, 2004;Grant et al, 2008), indicating that the changes in mood during pregnancy can continue into the postpartum period. Indeed, reports of high anxiety postpartum are often correlated with depression scores postpartum (see Correia and Linhares, 2007); high scores of both can have deleterious effects on the maternal-infant bond (Nagata et al, 2000) and infant cognitive development (Galler et al, 2000). However, anxiety and depression levels are often reported to decrease postpartum, in comparison to the number of symptoms reported during pregnancy (Heron et al, 2004), indicating a possible role of pregnancy hormones (such as estradiol and progesterone) in pregnancy-related anxiety and depression (see Section 3.3.2).…”

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Changes in anxiety and cognition due to reproductive experience: A review of data from rodent and human mothers

Macbeth

Luine

2010

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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“…Depression often coexists with disturbed mother−infant relationships. For example, Japanese mothers of 5-day-old infants showed significant negative correlations between mothers' bonding towards the babies and their depression severity (Nagata et al 2000). This was reported as the case over the course of 14 months after childbirth (Moehler et al 2006).…”

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Postnatal depression, maternal bonding failure, and negative attitudes towards pregnancy: a longitudinal study of pregnant women in Japan

Kokubu

Okano

Sugiyama

2012

Arch Womens Ment Health

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Postnatal depression and bonding failure after childbirth are major mental health issues. We investigated 99 pregnant women on three occasions (late in pregnancy and 5 days and 1 month postnatally). Anxiety during pregnancy predicted postnatal depression and bonding failure, whereas negative attitudes towards pregnancy predicted bonding failure. The effect of negative attitudes towards pregnancy on postnatal depression was possibly mediated by bonding failure. Postnatal depression and bonding failure are correlated with different risk factors and run rather independently over the course of the puerperium. Postnatal depression may be predicted by bonding failure.

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Maternity Blues and Attachment to Children in Mothers of Full-Term Normal Infants

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

Postnatal depressive mood in Turkish women

Postnatal depressive mood in Turkish women

Changes in anxiety and cognition due to reproductive experience: A review of data from rodent and human mothers

Postnatal depression, maternal bonding failure, and negative attitudes towards pregnancy: a longitudinal study of pregnant women in Japan

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