This study examined the effect of a brief psycho-educational program, Time Together, on maternal self-efficacy, mother-infant bonding, and mood/anxiety for community-based mothers. program centered voice, timing interplay, recognition infant cues. A convergent parallel mixed-methods design included quantitative measures: Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale, Mother-Infant Bonding Edinburgh Postn...

background : this study aimed to examine the association of state and trait anxiety with fear of childbirth to explore whether there was any support for the hypothesis that state and trait anxiety are risk factors for the fear of childbirth or not. methods : in this prospective study, 156 pregnant women referred to the health centers of qom. the study samples selected using simple random sampli...

Mindfulness has been studied as a momentary state and an enduring trait, yet little research reconciled these accounts. We draw from Whole Trait Theory (WTT) to conceptualize (the descriptive side of) trait mindfulness person-specific density distribution of mindful states. In preregistered secondary analyses three samples – daily diaries with adolescents (1,505 observations) experience samplin...

this study was carried out to investigate the direct and indirect responses to selection for four-week body weight (4 week body (wk bw)) and four-week breast weight (4 week breast weight (wk brw)) and to determine the genetic contribution of reminder founders to the last generation. a total number of 351 birds were equally allocated to three lines, including two selected lines (s1 and s2 for bw...

background and objectives: studies have shown that patients awaiting coronary angiography (ca) are often anxious. high level of anxiety can lead to physical and psychological stress with adverse effects on organs, es­pecially heart. there is limited information on state and trait anxiety level in these patients in the literature. this study was thus designed to investigate the level of these tw...

ellis-van creveld syndrome is transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait. this syndrome is accompanied in 60% of cases with congenital heart disease, mostly single atrium or large asd. patients are mostly symptomatic, but in this rare case despite 68 years of age, the patient was free of symptoms except for complete heart block for which pacemaker was inserted