The role of maternal attachment in the experience of labor pain: a prospective study
| Autor: | Rui Coelho, Henriqueta Martins, José Manuel Costa-Martins, Marco Pereira, Jorge Tavares, Mariana Moura-Ramos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Maternal attachment
Adult medicine.medical_specialty Multivariate analysis Time Factors Pregnancy Trimester Third Severity of Illness Index Developmental psychology Interpersonal relationship Pregnancy Severity of illness Adaptation Psychological Medicine Humans Interpersonal Relations Prospective Studies Prospective cohort study Object Attachment reproductive and urinary physiology Applied Psychology Pain Measurement Labor Pain Labor Obstetric business.industry Obstetrics Age Factors Analgesia Patient-Controlled Labor pain Middle Aged medicine.disease Mother-Child Relations Psychiatry and Mental health Multivariate Analysis Analgesia Obstetrical Regression Analysis Female business Psychological Theory |
| Zdroj: | Psychosomatic medicine. 76(3) |
| ISSN: | 1534-7796 |
| Popis: | To examine the influence of attachment dimensions and sociodemographic and physical predictors in the experience of labor pain.Eighty-one pregnant women were assessed during their third trimester of pregnancy and during labor. The perceived intensity of pain in the early stages of labor (3 cm of cervical dilatation) and before the administration of patient-controlled epidural analgesia was measured using a visual analog scale. Pain was also assessed indirectly based on anesthetic doses. Attachment was assessed using the Adult Attachment Scale-Revised.Attachment anxiety and avoidance were positively and significantly correlated with labor pain and anesthetic consumption. In the multivariate models, attachment anxiety was a significant predictor of higher pain at 3 cm of cervical dilatation (β = 0.36, p = .042) and before the administration of patient-controlled epidural analgesia (β = 0.51, p = .002). Older age (β = 0.31, p = .005), a shorter duration of labor (β= -0.41, p = .001), and attachment avoidance (β = 0.41, p = .004) were significant predictors of higher anesthetic use.The study findings suggest that perceived labor pain and anesthetic use are strongly associated with attachment, rather than demographic and physical factors. These data support the importance of understanding the experience of labor pain within an attachment theoretical framework. |
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