Looking on the Bright Side Reduces Worry in Pregnancy: Training Interpretations in Pregnant Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent evidence suggests that anxiety is more common than depression in the perinatal period, however there are few interventions available to treat perinatal anxiety. Targeting specific processes that maintain anxiety, such as worry, may be one potentially promising way to reduce anxiety in this period. Given evidence that negative interpretation bias maintains worry, we tested whether interpretation bias could be modified, and whether this in turn would lead to less negative thought (i.e., worry) intrusions, in pregnant women with high levels of worry.

Method

Participants (N = 49, at least 16 weeks gestation) were randomly assigned to either an interpretation modification condition (CBM-I) which involved training in accessing positive meanings of emotionally amb

SUBMITTER: Hirsch CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9667128 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature