Providing adequate parental support is pivotal when treating excessive infant crying, but there are indications that parents may not feel supported by professional health care. This study investigated maternal satisfaction with care and needs, comparing mothers of infants (N = 110) without a medical cause for the crying 101). Hierarchical cluster analysis was used to detect patterns in needs. D...

The perception of social support may be a trait-like construct stemming from the current personality and early environment as well as a summation of the actual support perceived. A total of 220 community individuals were examined for the effects of Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) items and early life experience at home and outside on the number of sources of perceived social support and...

INFLUENCES OF EARLY CHILD CHARACTERISTICS AND HEALTH ON LATERPARENT AND PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP FACTORSbyJENNIFER DEGROOT HANAWALTDecember 2012Advisor: Dr. Ty Partridge Major: Psychology (Clinical)Degree: Doctor of PhilosophyThe aim of this study was to evaluate ways in which infant temperament and healthdifficulties influence maternal characteristics over the ...

BACKGROUND The 2005 report of United Nations Millennium Project of Transforming Health Systems for women and children concluded that universal access to Emergency Obstetric and New born Care could reduce maternal deaths by 74%. Even though some studies investigated quality of Emergency Obstetric and New born Care in different parts of the world, there is scarcity of data regarding this issue in...

Parental rearing practices such as over-involvement are associated with childhood anxiety; however, little is known about the contribution of parental perceptions to child anxiety. This study explores the relationship between maternal and paternal perceptions of parenting and childhood anxiety. The perceived rearing behaviors and parental sense of competence (i.e., satisfaction and efficacy) of...

OBJECTIVES Research on the family's contribution to the quality of life of persons with serious mental illness has largely focused on negative family interactions associated with poorer client outcomes. The purpose of this naturalistic study of aging mothers and adults with schizophrenia was to investigate prosocial family processes that potentially enhance, rather than detract from, the life s...

This cross sectional study was conducted in order to describe patient satisfaction with maternal and child health services among mothers attending at Maternal and Child Health Training Institute in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The study population were women patients (over fifteen years old) who came to the out patient department for maternal and child care services. A total of 175 patients were intervie...

Background: Peripartum anesthesia may consist of parenteral opioids and/or regional analgesia. There is only limited data in the literature comparing both methods in daily obstetric practice. This observational study investigated the opioids pethidine and meptazinol as well as regional analgesics with regard to their administration, efficacy, side effects and subjective maternal satisfaction wi...

Sleep problems are common in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers throughout their development [1-4]. However, the definition of sleep problems differs between research groups. Studies have shown that mothers of young children with (persistent) sleep difficulties experience poorer physical and mental health [5,6], tend to be more depressed [711] and anxious [12], and report higher stress [4,12-1...

Pain during labor and delivery is often very unpleasant and stressful for the parturients. Patient controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) has been found to be both safe and effective, providing optimal pain relief and allowing women to participate in their own analgesia). Compared to other epidural techniques, intermittent epidural top-ups and continuous epidural analgesia (CEA), PCEA uses dilute...