Trying to Do What Is Best: A Qualitative Study of Maternal-Infant Bonding and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The maternal experience of caring for and bonding with infants affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) has not been adequately characterized.

Purpose

This study was designed to describe mothers' experiences of, supports for, and barriers to bonding with infants with NAS.

Methods

Semistructured interviews were coded using computer-assisted thematic content analysis. A code co-occurrence model was used to visualize the relationships between themes.

Results

Thirteen mothers of infants with NAS participated. Trying to Do What Is Best emerged as the overarching theme with which several subthemes co-occurred. Subthemes that captured mothers loving their infants and bonding, feeling supported by the infants' fathers, feeling supported in the communit

SUBMITTER: Rockefeller K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6814505 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature