The association between maternal lifetime interpersonal trauma experience and perceived mother-infant bonding.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interpersonal traumas are common among expectant and new mothers and are found to have considerable impacts on women's mental health. These experiences may disrupt maternal perceptions of the mother-infant relationship, which is essential for healthy infant development, but findings are inconsistent. This study aims to explore associations between lifetime interpersonal traumas and their impact on self-reported mother-infant bonding.

Methods

Secondary data analysis of a representative cohort of 453 women attending at a South London maternity service. Lifetime interpersonal trauma experience and its association with self-reported mother-infant bonding (Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire) was assessed in uni- and multivariable linear regressions, the latter adjusted t

SUBMITTER: Kolk TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8424749 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature