title: The effect on bonding behavior of giving a mother her premature baby's picture.
abstract: To investigate the effect on bonding behavior of giving mothers their premature baby's picture, 40 mother-infant dyads were randomly assigned to experimental (E) and control (C) groups. The E mothers were given a picture of their baby. The C mothers did not receive pictures. Both groups had visitation rights 24 hours a day. Two bonding observation measures were obtained--pretest and posttest. Results showed that E mothers exhibited significantly more bonding behaviors on posttest measured by (a) a bonding observation checklist, and (b) a physical examination observation checklist, than the C mothers.
authors.affiliation: California State University, Long Beach, USA.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Huckabay
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D010781:Photography; D011897:Random Allocation; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires