title: Impairment of mother-infant relationship: validation of the Chinese version of Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire.
abstract: The implementation of the Comprehensive Child Development Service in Hong Kong brought about the need for the development of an instrument for assessing mother-infant relationship impairments in women with postnatal depression. The Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire by was first translated into Chinese, then back-translated into English. An expert panel was set up to evaluate the content validity and a focus group discussion was held to explore the face validity and acceptability of the questionnaire. The Chinese version of the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire (C-PBQ) was administered to 62 women suffering from postnatal depression. Scale 1 of the C-PBQ had a sensitivity of 84% for detecting women with any forms of mother-infant relationship impairments and scale 2 had a sensitivity of 89% for detecting rejection of infant and a sensitivity of 77% for detecting pathological anger towards infant. The C-PBQ is a useful instrument for detecting mother-infant relationship impairments as perceived by women with postnatal depression.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Castle Peak Hospital, Hong Kong, China. bonniew114m@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Bonnie W-M
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Siu
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ip
authors.forename: Hesione M-T
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Chow
authors.forename: Shirjolina S-P
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Kwok
authors.forename: Oi-Lin
authors.initials: OL
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Mei-Ling
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Koo
authors.forename: Eric F-C
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Cheung
authors.forename: Timothy M-H
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Yeung
authors.forename: Se-Fong
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Hung
mesh_terms: D000786:Anger; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019052:Depression, Postpartum / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006723:Hong Kong / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D011594:Psychometrics; D012059:Rejection, Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating