Examining mothers' obsessive and compulsive behaviors regarding baby care, cyberchondria level and maternal burnout in the postpartum period: Path analysis.

Autor: Tiryaki Ö; Departmant of Midwifery, Faculty of Health Science, Sakarya University, Serdivan, Turkey., Menekşe D; Department of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Sakarya University, Serdivan, Turkey., Arsoy HEM; Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Serdivan, Sakarya, Turkey., Çınar N; Department of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, Sakarya University, Serdivan, Turkey.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics [Int J Gynaecol Obstet] 2024 Oct 21. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 21.
DOI: 10.1002/ijgo.15962
Abstrakt: Objective: To examine the effects of postpartum women's obsessive and compulsive behaviors towards the care of their babies and maternal exhaustion levels on cyberchondria.
Methods: The study, designed as a cross-sectional and correlation-seeking study, included 275 mothers. Data were collected from Turkish mothers with maternal burnout scale (MBS), scale for obsessive and compulsive behavıors of mothers ın the postpartum perıod wıth regard to baby care and cyberchondria severity scale (CSS).
Results: A total of 41.8% of the mothers, whose average age was 28.49 ± 5.04, had their first birth, 62.5% of the mothers were feeding their babies with breast milk, and 65.8% had regular sleep. The total mean score of the scales was 24.76 ± 5.15 for T-MBS, 81.19 ± 22.16 for CSS, and 16.11 ± 10.28 for the obsession scale. There was a statistically significant positive relationship between the maternal burnout and postpartum obsession scales and the cyberchondria severity scale.
Conclusion: In the present study, mothers in the postpartum period did not show signs of burnout or obsessive-compulsive behaviors in the care of their babies, and their cyberchondria severity scores were at a moderate level.
(© 2024 The Author(s). International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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