Mid-Pregnancy Maternal Anxiety Mediates the Association Between Maternal Chronotype and Breastfeeding Duration.

ABSTRACT: Background: Maternal chronotype, maternal sleep, and breastfeeding practices are separately associated with maternal mood. However, it is not known if maternal mood mediates the associations between maternal chronotype or maternal sleep and breastfeeding duration. Objective: To investigate whether maternal mood mediates the associations of maternal chronotype and maternal prenatal sleep with breastfeeding duration in a multiethnic cohort of Singaporean mothers. Methods: In a prospective cohort study, caregivers of term-born, singleton infants (N = 340) completed the Horne-Östberg Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ; 54 months), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI; 26 weeks gestation), Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS; 26-28 weeks gestation) and

SUBMITTER: Abdul Jafar NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12899007 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature