Posttraumatic growth after childbirth: A prospective study

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Posttraumatic growth in mothers after infant admission to neonatal intensive care unit

“…Leung et al (2010) identifi ed signifi cant association between greater social support and posttraumatic growth (28). In a study investigating posttraumatic growth following childbirth, Sawyer et al (2012) found no association between PTG and social support (29). Similarly, no statistically signifi cant association was found in another study investigating coping strategies, social support, attachment styles and posttraumatic growth in cancer survivors (14).…”

Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory Short Form Among Divorced Adults

“…Finally, as in other studies of international versions of the PTGI (Jaarsma et al, 2006), we did not assess the perceived impact of divorce experience in our sample. This methodological option is based on the recent conceptual views of psychological growth, in which stressrelated growth measures can be administered to assess individual's perception of personal changes in the self, interpersonal relationships, and life philosophy in a wide diversity of life events (Krumrei et al, 2009;Sawyer & Ayers, 2009;Staudinger & Kunzmann, 2005;Taku et al, 2008;Tedeschi et al, 2007). On the other hand, the assessment of perceived negative impact of divorce could have been relevant since, according to Tedeschi and Calhoun (1996), the comparison of the PTGI scores between highly stressed individuals and nonhighly stressed individuals may be an additional tool to verify PTG construct validity, by predicting that highly stressed individuals would be more likely to report higher levels of PTG (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996).…”

The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder in pregnancy and after birth: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Methodological quality of studies was graded using rating criteria based on those used in previous reviews of perinatal research (Sawyer et al, 2012;Andersen et al, 2012). This rated study aims/hypotheses, inclusion and exclusion criteria, data collection, PTSD measure, sample representativeness, response rate, and analysis of differences between participants and nonparticipants.…”