Aya Isumi, Satomi Doi, Manami Ochi, Tsuguhiko Kato, Takeo Fujiwara
School- and community-level protective factors for resilience among chronically maltreated children in Japan
Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
pregnancy important period motherinfant attachment begins includes biopsychological changes physical psychological effects future life fetus study aims evaluate prenatal attachment levels syrian refugee turkish mothers turkey determine variables affect crosssectional study conducted obstetric outpatient clinics 397 pregnant women 197 syrian 200 native women inclusion criteria pregnancy least 20 weeks communication mental disorders chronic diseases diagnosis highrisk pregnancy literacy pregnant turkish women turkish language proficiency pregnant syrian women residence turkey least three years data collected using sociodemographic form prenatal attachment inventory pai data analyzed conducting independent ttests hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis mean prenatal attachment score turkish pregnant women 6179 855 higher syrian women 4838 1039 p 05 education level prepregnancy counseling regular checkup support spouses relatives friends refugee pregnant women determined predictors prenatal attachment results showed 67 percent total variance prenatal attachment levels could explained model 2 f 35524 r2 variation 673 p 001 low prenatal attachment level syrian pregnant women result detrimental impacts refugee pregnancy integration transcultural knowledge culturespecific perspectives crosscultural theories clinical practices essential immigrant women