Journal article
Predictors of postnatal mother-infant bonding: the role of antenatal bonding, maternal substance use and mental health
L Rossen, D Hutchinson, J Wilson, L Burns, C A Olsson, S Allsop, E J Elliott, S Jacobs, JA Macdonald, RP Mattick
Archives of Women S Mental Health | Published : 2016
Abstract
The emotional bond that a mother feels towards her baby is critical to social, emotional and cognitive development. Maternal health and wellbeing through pregnancy and antenatal bonding also play a key role in determining bonding postnatally, but the extent to which these relationships may be disrupted by poor mental health or substance use is unclear. This study aimed to examine the extent to which mother-fetal bonding, substance use and mental health through pregnancy predicted postnatal mother-infant bonding at 8 weeks. Participants were 372 women recruited from three metropolitan hospitals in Australia. Data was collected during trimesters one, two and three of pregnancy and 8 weeks post..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The research was funded by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant #GNT630517 for $2,196,179 to Richard P Mattick, Delyse Hutchinson, Steve Allsop, Jake Najman, Elizabeth Elliott, Lucy Burns, Sue Jacobs, Craig A Olsson and Anne Bartu, and was financially supported by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), University of NewSouth Wales (UNSW), and the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI), Curtin University. NDARC and NDRI are funded by the Australian Government under the Substance Misuse Prevention and Service Improvements Grants Fund. Richard P Mattick is financially supported by an NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship Award from the NHMRC; Delyse Hutchinson is financially supported by an Australian Unity Industry Partner Senior Research Fellowship; Craig Olsson is supported by an Australian Research Council Senior Research Fellowship (DORA: DP 130101459); and, Elizabeth Elliott is supported by an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship (#1021480).We gratefully acknowledge the investigators not listed as authors; the research staff and students who assisted with collection of the data; the hospitals and antenatal clinics for their assistance with recruitment; and, the study participants and their families. We also wish to acknowledge the Longitudinal Cohorts Research Consortium (LCRC; Formerly the Cannabis Cohorts Research Consortium; NHMRC Project Grants: AAP1009381, AAP1064893).