Mothers' social behaviours in the NICU during newborns' hospitalisation: an observational approach.

The aim of this study was to investigate the individual differences in social behaviours in the NICU of mothers following the premature birth of their babies, and to verify whether these early behaviours predict later sensitivity at 3 months of the infant's corrected age. Videos of mothers attending...

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Publicado en:Journal of Reproductive & Infant Psychology Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 200 - 212
Autores principales: Coppola G, Cassibba R
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2010
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          Coppola G
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        affil: University 'G. D'Annunzio' of Chieti, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Chieti, Italy
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          Infant, Premature
          Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
          Maternal Behavior
          Mother-Infant Relations
          Social Behavior
          Analysis of Variance
          Attachment Behavior
          Audiorecording
          Birth Weight
          Coding
          Descriptive Statistics
          Female
          Gestational Age
          Hospitalization
          Human
          Infant, Newborn
          Interrater Reliability
          Interview Guides
          Intraclass Correlation Coefficient
          Italy
          Male
          Mann-Whitney U Test
          Mothers Psychosocial Factors
          Narratives
          Nonexperimental Studies
          Paired T-Tests
          Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
          Post Hoc Analysis
          Postnatal Care
          Prospective Studies
          Sample Size
          Scales
          Self Report
          Semi-Structured Interview
          Two-Tailed Test
          Videorecording
          Infant, Newborn: birth-1 month
          Female
          Male
      ab: The aim of this study was to investigate the individual differences in social behaviours in the NICU of mothers following the premature birth of their babies, and to verify whether these early behaviours predict later sensitivity at 3 months of the infant's corrected age. Videos of mothers attending to the newborn in the NICU (at 15, 30 and 45 days post-partum) and during free interaction at home 3 months later were collected. During hospitalisation, multiple dimensions related to the mother and to the baby were assessed. Results show that the more severe the baby's condition the more mothers tend to only focus on rather than speak to their baby. Physical closeness facilitated by the baby's position as well as maternal security of attachment were positively associated with communicative behaviours, while different patterns of associations were found with traumatic symptoms of intrusion and avoidance following the premature birth, suggesting opposite effects of these two types of symptoms on the mothers' behaviours. Controlling the attachment security, mothers' smiling at the baby in the NICU predicted later sensitivity in interaction with their infants. These preliminary results may have important practical implications for the use of intervention programmes in the NICU.
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