La Rosa Valentina Lucia, Alparone Dario, Commodari Elena
Department of Educational Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, University of Western Brittany, Brest, France.
Front Psychol. 2025 Apr 30;16:1588433. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1588433. eCollection 2025.
This study aimed to examine how maternal mental health, sleep quality, and social support influence mother-infant bonding during the first year after childbirth.
A total of 1,495 mothers participated by completing standardized questionnaires that assessed the quality of bonding with their infants, experiences of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress, symptoms of postpartum depression, sleep disturbances, and levels of social support.
The results indicated that 49.6% of mothers experienced childbirth-related post-traumatic stress, 32.2% reported symptoms of postpartum depression, and 50.7% experienced sleep disturbances. Regression analysis showed that postpartum depression, poor sleep quality, older maternal age, emergency cesarean delivery, and low levels of social and partner support hurt the quality of the mother-infant bond. Depressive symptoms emerged as the strongest negative predictor, whereas adequate social and partner support positively influenced bonding.
These findings highlight the need for early screening and interventions aimed at improving maternal mental health and social support to promote positive mother-infant bonding and healthy child development.
本研究旨在探讨产后第一年母亲的心理健康、睡眠质量和社会支持如何影响母婴联结。
共有1495名母亲参与，她们完成了标准化问卷，这些问卷评估了与婴儿的联结质量、分娩相关创伤后应激经历、产后抑郁症状、睡眠障碍以及社会支持水平。
结果表明，49.6%的母亲经历过分娩相关创伤后应激，32.2%报告有产后抑郁症状，50.7%有睡眠障碍。回归分析显示，产后抑郁、睡眠质量差、母亲年龄较大、急诊剖宫产以及社会和伴侣支持水平低会损害母婴联结质量。抑郁症状是最强的负面预测因素，而充足的社会和伴侣支持对母婴联结有积极影响。
这些发现凸显了早期筛查和干预的必要性，旨在改善母亲的心理健康和社会支持，以促进积极的母婴联结和儿童健康发展。
