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Posttraumatic stress among mothers of very low birthweight infants at 6 months after discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit
Nancy Feeley ,
Phyllis Zelkowitz ,
Carole Cormier ,
Lyne Charbonneau ,
Annie Lacroix ,
Apostolos Papageorgiou
May 2011
May 2011
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Abstract
This correlational study examined how mother's posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
symptoms are related to characteristics of the mother and her infant, as well as to
mother-infant interaction and infant development, in 21 mothers of very low birthweight
infants. Twenty-three percent of mothers scored in the clinical range on a measure
of PTSD. How ill the infant was during the NICU hospitalization was related to mothers'
PTSD symptoms. Mothers with greater PTSD symptoms were less sensitive and effective
at structuring interaction with their infant.
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