TY - JOUR
T1 - Anxiety, depression, and hostility in mothers of preterm infants
AU - Brooten, Dorothy
AU - Gennaro, Susan
AU - Brown, Linda P.
AU - Butts, Priscilla
AU - Gibbons, Ann L.
AU - Bakewell-Sachs, Susan
AU - Kumar, Savitri P.
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - Anxiety, depression, and hostility in 47 mothers of high-risk preterm infants were tested at the time of infant discharge and when the infant was 9 months old. Mothers of these high-risk preterms were significantly more anxious and depressed before their infant was discharged than when the infant was 9 months old. Before infant discharge, multiparas were significantly more depressed than primiparas. Additionally, mothers whose infants remained in the hospital longer than the mean of 51 days were significantly less depressed at infant discharge than were mothers whose infants had shorter hospital stays. Maternal anxiety, depression, and hostility did not differ based on marital status, maternal education, socioeconomic status, or maternal age at the time of infant discharge or when the infant was 9 months old.
AB - Anxiety, depression, and hostility in 47 mothers of high-risk preterm infants were tested at the time of infant discharge and when the infant was 9 months old. Mothers of these high-risk preterms were significantly more anxious and depressed before their infant was discharged than when the infant was 9 months old. Before infant discharge, multiparas were significantly more depressed than primiparas. Additionally, mothers whose infants remained in the hospital longer than the mean of 51 days were significantly less depressed at infant discharge than were mothers whose infants had shorter hospital stays. Maternal anxiety, depression, and hostility did not differ based on marital status, maternal education, socioeconomic status, or maternal age at the time of infant discharge or when the infant was 9 months old.
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U2 - 10.1097/00006199-198807000-00008
DO - 10.1097/00006199-198807000-00008
M3 - Article
C2 - 3393427
AN - SCOPUS:0023735513
SN - 0029-6562
VL - 37
SP - 213
EP - 216
JO - Nursing research
JF - Nursing research
IS - 4
ER -