Perinatal Intimate Partner Violence and Maternal-Infant Bonding in Women With Anxiety Symptoms in Pakistan: The Moderating Role of Breastfeeding.

• Tác giả: Najia Atif, Abid Malik, Hina Naseem, Soim Park, Jamie Perin, Atif Rahman, Armaan A Rowther, Pamela J Surkan, Ahmed Zaidi
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 324.62 Suffrage
• Thông tin xuất bản: United States : Journal of interpersonal violence , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 677464

Tóm tắt

Intimate partner violence (IPV) during the perinatal period can negatively affect both a woman's health and the bonding with her infant. Research on IPV among pregnant women experiencing psychological distress in South Asia is limited. We examined associations between perinatal exposure to IPV and postnatal maternal-infant bonding in Pakistani women with symptoms of anxiety and assessed if breastfeeding practices moderated these associations. Postnatal data were collected from 720 Pakistani women who reported at least mild levels of anxiety symptoms in pregnancy. We performed Poisson regression with robust variance analyses to examine the associations between IPV during pregnancy or within 6 weeks after delivery (i.e., the perinatal period) and maternal-infant bonding. Interaction terms between IPV and breastfeeding practices were included in the analytic models to examine the moderating effects. About 27% of women were exposed to at least one type of perinatal IPV. Women who were exposed to IPV were more likely to have moderate to severe postpartum anxiety (