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Depression and anxiety symptoms in mothers of newborns hospitalized on the neonatal intensive care unit.
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- Factors associated with posttraumatic stress and anxiety among the parents of babies admitted to neonatal care: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Pooled it
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- Parents' Experiences of Psychosocial Support in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study.Journal of clinical nursing · 2026Article
- Associations of cumulative adversity on Hispanic mothers' perceived stress with infants admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).Maternal health, neonatology and perinatology · 2026Article
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- Peripartum Traumas and Mental Health Outcomes in a Low-Income Sample of NICU Mothers: A Call for Family-Centered, Trauma-Informed Care.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- The Association between NICU Admission and Mental Health Diagnoses among Commercially Insured Postpartum Women in the US, 2010-2018.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- The Associations of Psychologic and Physiologic Manifestations of Parental Stress in Critical Congenital Heart Disease.Biological research for nursing · 2022Article
- New mental health diagnoses in parents of infants admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit-a retrospective review of the Military Health System database.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2022Article
- Impact of psychological distress and psychophysical wellbeing on posttraumatic symptoms in parents of preterm infants after NICU discharge.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2022Article
- Skin-to-skin SDF positioning: The key to intersubjective intimacy between mother and very preterm newborn-A pilot matched-pair case-control study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Prevalence of anxiety and post-traumatic stress (PTS) among the parents of babies admitted to neonatal units: A systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2022Article
- Adverse Neonatal Outcomes and Associated Risk Factors: A Case-Control Study.Global pediatric health · 2022Article
- Telehealth Listening Visits for emotionally distressed mothers of hospitalized newborns: Proof-of-concept.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundMothers of infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are at risk for clinically significant levels of depression and anxiety symptoms; however, the maternal/infant characteristics that predict risk have been difficult to determine. Previous studies have conceptualized depression and anxiety symptoms separately, ignoring their comorbidity. Moreover, risk factors for these symptoms have not been assessed together in one study sample.
objectivesThe primary aim of this study was to determine whether a diagnostic classification approach or a common factor model better explained the pattern of symptoms reported by NICU mothers, including depression, generalized anxiety, panic, and trauma. A secondary aim was to assess risk factors of aversive emotional states in NICU mothers based on the supported conceptual model.
methodIn this cross-sectional study, a nonprobability convenience sample of 200 NICU mothers completed questionnaires assessing maternal demographic and infant health characteristics, as well as maternal depression and anxiety symptoms. Structural equation modeling was used to test a diagnostic classification model and a common factor model of aversive emotional states and the risk factors of aversive emotional states in mothers in the NICU.
resultsMaximum likelihood estimates indicated that examining symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders as separate diagnostic classifications did not fit the data well, whereas examining the common factor of negative emotionality rendered an adequate fit to the data and identified a history of depression, infant illness, and infant prematurity as significant risk factors. DISCUSSION: This study supports a multidimensional view of depression and should guide both clinical practice and future research with NICU mothers.
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