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- Title
Does the visibility of a congenital anomaly affect maternal-infant attachment levels?
- Authors
Boztepe, Handan; Ay, Ayşe; Kerimoğlu Yıldız, Gizem; Çınar, Sevil
- Abstract
Purpose To determine whether congenital anomaly visibility affects maternal-infant attachment levels. Design and Methods The study population consisted of mothers who had infants with cleft lip/palate or congenital heart anomalies who were receiving treatment in a university hospital. The data were collected using the Structured Questionnaire Form and the Maternal Attachment Inventory. Results Statistically significant differences in maternal-infant attachment levels were observed between infants with cleft lips/palates and healthy infants and between infants with congenital heart anomalies and healthy infants. Practice implications It is important to apply appropriate nursing interventions for these mothers during the postpartum period.
- Subjects
TURKEY; CONGENITAL heart disease; CLEFT lip; ACADEMIC medical centers; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); ANXIETY; CHILDREN'S hospitals; STATISTICAL correlation; DISFIGURED persons; FATHERS; FEAR; OUTPATIENT services in hospitals; INFANT care; MOTHER-infant relationship; MOTHERHOOD; PSYCHOLOGY of mothers; PARENT-infant relationships; PARENTING; PREGNANCY complications; PRENATAL diagnosis; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SELF-evaluation; SOCIAL networks; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; STATISTICAL power analysis; SOCIAL support; RETROSPECTIVE studies; HEALTH literacy; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; KRUSKAL-Wallis Test; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 2016, Vol 21, Issue 4, p200
- ISSN
1539-0136
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jspn.12157