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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Maternal anxiety"”.
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Women's knowledge, expectations and experience of induction of labour and the association with maternal anxiety
… questionnaires and the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. One hundred and nine women experienced IOL and completed both pre and post IOL surveys; of these, 98 linked surveys were eligible to be analysed using SPSS v 18. Both simple descriptive and multivariate analyses were undertaken. …
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The Impact of Mother and Adolescent Offspring Distress Reduction Training on Maternal Anxiety and Alcohol Related Behaviors Following Conflict
… is likely to maintain both alcohol use and anxiety psychopathology. Reducing distress elicited by normative mother-adolescent conflict holds particular promise. Conflict is common in families with problematic drinking and anxiety disorders and the affective impact of parent-offspring …
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Overcoming language barriers using an information video on spinal anesthesia for cesarean section: implementation and impact on maternal anxiety
… narrated in a patient's first language, reduces anxiety, increases satisfaction, and improves doctor-patient communication if there is a language barrier. In South Africa most doctors speak English, and patients Xhosa, with educational and cultural disparities existing in many doctor-patient …
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Parental Anxiety and Child Psychopathology: The Role of the Family Environment
A sizeable proportion of adults suffer from an anxiety disorder and many of those adults are parents. Parental anxiety, as well as dysfunctional family environment, contributes to both internalizing and externalizing problems in children. Specifically, family control, conflict, and cohesion have …
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A Longitudinal Examination of Family Factors in Childhood Anxiety: The Role of Parental Anxiety and Child Emotion Dysregulation
Theoretical models specify that anxiety aggregates in families. Research confirmed maternal anxiety as a predictor of childhood anxiety; however, very little evidence exists in support of paternal anxiety's role in child anxiety as well as about potentially reciprocal relationships between parental …
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Maternal depression and anxiety disorders within two years of birth among African immigrant women in Alberta
… in Canada, yet they are underrepresented in maternal mental health research. Research that describes the rates, risk factors, help-seeking behaviors, and effects of depression and anxiety following childbirth among African mothers with young infants is limited. Of the 120 respondents, 27.5% …
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Anxiety after birth: an existential phenomenological enquiry into mothers’ lived experiences
The concept of anxiety after birth has attracted increasing interest from perinatal researchers in recent years, however there are no studies which examine the phenomenon from an existential phenomenological standpoint. The aim of this study therefore was to explore women’s lived experiences of …
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The Effect of Child Distress on Maternal Accommodation of Anxiety: Relations with Mother and Child Factors
… a relationship between parenting behaviors and anxiety in youth, yet few studies have examined parental accommodation in the context of youth with anxiety disorders other than obsessive-compulsive disorder. Furthermore, little is known about the influence of child behaviors on parental …
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Maternal and Child Anxiety: Do Attachment Beliefs and Parenting Behaviors Mediate the Association?
… parenting behaviors on the association between maternal and child anxiety in a community sample of mothers and their children aged 6-17 (N = 89). Maternal anxiety was assessed through the SCL-90 & STAI-T. Child anxiety was assessed through the RCMAS-C, STAIC-T, RCMAS-P, & CBCL. Attachment …
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Parenting Behavior and Family Function in Families with Anxious Youth: Influence of Youth and Mother Characteristics
… in the development and maintenance of childhood anxiety. The current study examined the potential moderating role of family functioning in the relationship between parenting behavior (i.e., youth-perceived maternal involvement; autonomy granting) and youth anxiety symptoms. The study also …
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The effects of early services on the relationship between children with behavior problems and low IQ and maternal education
… services moderated the relationship between maternal education and problem behaviors in children; for which each regression model utilized maternal anxiety, child’s gender, and expressive and receptive language ability as the control variables. When investigating the moderating influence of …
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Predictors of outcome for the young offspring of depressed mothers: Maternal psychopathology, maternal behavior, and the social/familial context
The present study investigated the roles of maternal psychopathology, maternal behavior, and the social/familial context as predictors of outcome in the 2-3 year old offspring of a community sample of mothers with unipolar affective disorders (current and in remission). Maternal psychopathology …
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Postpartum Fatigue in the Active Duty Military Woman
… of type of delivery, lactogenesis, depression, anxiety, maternal sleep, and infant temperament correlated with fatigue during hospitalization and at 2 weeks postpartum. Depression, anxiety, maternal sleep, and performance correlated with fatigue at 6–8 weeks postpartum. Regression analyses …
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Brain Electrical Activity in Infants of Depressed and Anxious Mothers
… asymmetry may indicate risk for depression and anxiety. The extant developmental psychopathology literature has examined patterns of EEG asymmetry in the offspring of parents with affective disorders and such research has reported linkages between frontal EEG asymmetry and depression, suggesting …
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Maternal Social Anxiety, Verbal Information Transfer, and Child Play Representations in the Context of Starting School
Background Anxiety is a common childhood psychological difficulty, however little is known about the development of anxiety symptoms in early childhood. By understanding such processes, early identification and targeted prevention work may be possible. Anxiety runs in families, and research …
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Patterns and predictors of exclusive breastfeeding duration among women living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa
… peri-urban Cape Town, South Africa. Methods: The Maternal-and-Child-Health-Antiretroviral (MCH-ART) study (2013-2016) enrolled HIV-infected women initiating ART in pregnancy; breastfeeding mother-infant pairs were followed until 18 months. Data were collected via interviews at scheduled study …
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Transition to Motherhood-A Qualitative Study of Low Income Women's First Term Pregnancy Experiences
… transition and personally incorporates the new maternal roles, activities and identities.</p> <p>Some groups of women may be at increased risk for pregnancy and birth related complications and are more likely to experience dissonance, discord, and stress during this transitional period …
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Prenatal stress, the placenta and maternal microbial transmission; implications for health and disease
… epidemiological evidence showing that prenatal maternal distress (PNMD) is a risk factor for a wide range of poor obstetric and neonatal outcomes, as well as an increased risk for the development of metabolic, immune and nervous system disorders in affected children later in life. Whilst many …
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