Mother-child bonding assessment tools* *Study conducted at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.

Perrelli, Jaqueline Galdino Albuquerque; Zambaldi, Carla Fonseca; Cantilino, Amaury; Sougey, Éverton Botelho

doi:10.1016/s2359-3482(15)30020-8

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“…Condon went through multiple steps to establish MAAS, first she piloted it on 54 women to collect evidence of face validity; then, the items were reduced to 27 (87). Then, she recruited a sample size of 112 pregnant women to fill out the MAAS; after this, Condon reduced the items to 19 (82) to reach desired internal consistency " Cronbach's alpha which was 0.82 " and study power 0.80 (82), and a construct validity was performed by factor analysis; it concluded that the MAAS had two factors: quality and duration of the bond (89). This tool has been adapted and used in Holland (2010) (90), Hungary (2014) (91), and Turkey (2014) (92), (see Table 1.1 below).…”

Section: Condon's (1985) Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scalementioning

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“…Some researchers have criticized Condon's MAAS. For example, Zimerman and Doan (89) questioned the reliability and validity of MAAS based upon their experience using the MAAS in a study which aimed to examine the MFA between three groups of women (primigravid women, multiparous women with "healthy" children, and multiparous women with children diagnosed with Down's syndrome) (82). They used the MAAS to measure MFA at two time points -following the first measurement of MFA, primigravid women had higher scores and showed more attachment, while at the second time point, no differences were observed between groups (82).…”

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“…Several researchers have described their process of adapting a tool for their country to measure MFA (67,89). The following table (Table 1.2) provides a list of countries that have adapted such a tool and notes which tool has been adapted.…”

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“…research objectives of this study were to translate Muller's Prenatal Attachment Inventory (PAI) from English to Arabic, to examine if the Arabic version was a good fit for Arab culture and could be adapted there. Then to test it on pregnant Arab women at King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to explore its psychometric properties.Muller's PAI was chosen because it was the most recent tool of the three examined (MFAS, MAAS and PAI), and it had the best psychometric properties of the three tools(67,89,100) with high internal consistency and showed evidence of validity in more than one type of validity. All of the researchers from other countries who had adapted Muller's PAI had not changed any item of the original tool to fit into their own culture's context.…”

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Validity and reliability of the Arabic version of Muller’s prenatal attachment inventory

Arafah

Thomas

Fenton

et al. 2020

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology

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Increased maternal fetal attachment (MFA) is associated to improved health practices. A tool to measure MFA within an Arab cultural context was developed to help health care providers identify and help women with low MFA. Muller's 21-item Prenatal Attachment Inventory (PAI) was translated from English into Arabic and tested on 250 pregnant Arab women in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to measure its psychometric properties and appropriateness within an Arab cultural context. A cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted in two phases. First, the tool was translated using the Universal Translation Approach and assessed for content validity. In this phase there were four new items added to the original tool and their validity was tested in the second phase. In the second phase, the tool was tested on the study population, descriptive statistics were developed, association tests were used to explore associations between demographic variables and MFA, factor analysis was conducted and reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Associations between MFA and maternal variables were found such as downloading an application to follow the baby's growth, planning to breastfeed the baby and parity. The Arabic tool could serve Arab-speaking countries and help researchers explore new associations between MFA and the social determinants of health for Arab mothers and babies. Key words: Maternal fetal attachment, maternal antenatal attachment, psychometrics, attachment, mother-fetus attachment, Arabic maternal fetal attachment, and Arab maternal fetal attachment. ii Acknowledgements This work was supported by Qatar Research Leadership Program (QRLP) from the Qatar Foundation in Doha, Qatar.

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Section: Condon's (1985) Maternal Antenatal Attachment Scalementioning

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“…We were unable to examine how the NICU interacts with mother-infant bonding, either due to the short study period itself, which was only three days postpartum, or because the simple survey we used was not sensitive enough (Perrelli, Zambaldi, Cantilino, & Sougey, 2014). This research question could not be answered adequately with this data, making it a limitation of the study design.…”

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The Association of Kangaroo Mother Care, Energy Conservation, and Bonding in Preterm Neonates

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Purpose: To examine the association of kangaroo mother care (KMC) on energy utilization and bonding as evidenced by reduced biochemical markers of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) degradation, hypoxanthine (Hx), xanthine (Xa), and uric acid (UA), and (allantoin), a measure of oxidative stress in preterm infants 24-36 weeks gestation. A secondary objective was to compare specific physiological parameters using bedside monitoring and perfusion and oxygenation of the gut using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) during 1 hour of KMC compared to incubator care. Study design: A randomized controlled trial (RCT) examining the effects of 1-hour of KMC or 1-hour incubator care on urinary markers from samples collected 3-6 hours before and 3-6 hours after KMC. Preterm infants (n = 51) were assigned to intervention/control groups using stratified randomization based on weight. Urine concentrations of Hx, Xa, and UA, were measured using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and allantoin was quantified using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) methods. Bonding was measured using the Mother-to-infant Bonding Scale, a reliable 8-item self-assessment scale linking early maternal moods to difficulties in bonding. Psychometric properties have demonstrated a two-factor model, good predictive validity, a sensitivity of 0.90 and specificity of 0.80 for a threshold score ≥ 2, and acceptable internal consistency (a = 0.71). Physiologic measures were captured using bedside monitoring and abdominal NIRS to capture gut perfusion and oxygenation. Results: There was a decrease in oxidative stress (p = 0.026) in the KMC group compared to incubator group. In both groups there were trending improvements in uric acid (p = 0.025) and xanthine (p = 0.042) over time, and in abdominal temperatures (p = 0.004) and perfusion index (p = 0.031) over time. No other physiologic or urinary measures showed statistically significant changes either between the groups or over time. A mixed model analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted with the use of unstructured covariance matrix adjusted using the Bonferroni method to assess the changes in the outcome measures of urinary purines and physiological measures. Mother-Infant Bonding scores were calculated using relative risk. The number and percentage of subjects who changed their MIBS scores from baseline to time 3 were measured, and the comparison of these changes between the KMC on DOL 3 and DOL 4 as measured by the Mother-Infant-Bonding-Scale (MIBS) in intervention and control groups were calculated. We found that scores showed KMC mothers exhibited a higher risk of bonding problems than those in the control group. Nineteen percent more mothers in the KMC group demonstrated an increase in MIBS score or a 26% increase relative risk for an increase of score (RR=1.26; 95% CI 0.97,1.63). However, the results were not statistically significant as the null value was included in the 95% confidence interval. Significance was set at an alpha of 0.05. Conclusions: This is the first study to evaluate th...

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Maternal-infant bonding and perceptions of infant temperament: The mediating role of maternal mental health

Davies

Silverio

Christiansen

et al. 2021

Journal of Affective Disorders

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Mother-child bonding assessment tools* *Study conducted at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil.

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References 35 publications

Validity and reliability of the Arabic version of Muller’s prenatal attachment inventory

Validity and reliability of the Arabic version of Muller’s prenatal attachment inventory

The Association of Kangaroo Mother Care, Energy Conservation, and Bonding in Preterm Neonates

Maternal-infant bonding and perceptions of infant temperament: The mediating role of maternal mental health

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