The interrelationship between pregnancy-specific anxiety and general anxiety across pregnancy: a longitudinal study.
J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol
; 35(3): 92-100, 2014 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-25093467
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
High levels of prenatal maternal anxiety - either pregnancy-specific anxiety or general anxiety - may have detrimental effects on both the mother and her child. It is currently unknown how these two different expressions of anxiety influence each other over time during pregnancy.AIMS:
This study aimed to describe the relationship between state, trait and pregnancy-specific anxiety levels across pregnancy.METHODS:
Longitudinal data from three data-waves of a large-scaled sample of nulliparous normal risk pregnant women were used to display associations over time by means of autoregressive and cross-lagged panel models.RESULTS:
Cross-lagged, cross-time pathways from pregnancy-specific anxiety to state as well as trait anxiety were positively significant, while vice versa the most consistent links were found from trait anxiety to pregnancy-specific anxiety.CONCLUSIONS:
We conclude that pregnancy-specific anxiety and general anxiety appear to influence each other over time, resulting in heightened anxiety for some soon-to-be mothers.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Ansiedade
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Complicações na Gravidez
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Estresse Psicológico
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Gestantes
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol
Ano de publicação:
2014
Tipo de documento:
Article