Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2019)

Mother-infant bonding during the early postnatal period in a sample of Chinese primiparous mothers

Authors
Chong Zhang, Si-min Xiong, Jun-min Luo, Rong Nie
Corresponding Author
Rong Nie
Available Online May 2019.
DOI
10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.4How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Maternal bonding, Mental health, Postpartum
Abstract

This study aims to investigation the mother-infant bonding impairment among Chinese primiparous mothers in the early postpartum period. Totally, there were 119 primiparous mothers were conveniently recruited at the 42 days postpartum from a local hospital in Wuhan, China. Data on the social-demographic characteristics, clinical information, prenatal depressive and anxious mood, and mother-infant bonding were collected using a self-designed basic information questionnaire and the Chinese-version of Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire(C-PBQ). The results showed that the total score of C-PBQ was 14.62±10.35. The prevalence of reported mild bonding disturbances and potential rejections of infants were 21.8% and 1.68%, respectively, while no one reported explicit rejections. During pregnancy, only 5.0% of women experienced depressive mood, while 11.8% with anxiety. Although a higher score of C-PBQ was observed in women with prenatal anxiety compared to those without (P<0.05), no significant effects of anxiety during pregnancy on the mother-infant bonding was found based on the regression analysis. Therefore, close attention should be paid to mother-infant bonding impairment for Chinese new mother in the early postpartum period. Investigating methods to enhance perinatal maternal bonding and reducing anxiety in pregnancy is needed.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
May 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-730-0
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/ichssr-19.2019.4How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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