title: The roles of social support in helping chinese women with antenatal depressive and anxiety symptoms cope with perceived stress.
abstract: A community-based sample of 755 pregnant Chinese women were recruited to test the direct and moderating effects of social support in mitigating perceived stress associated with antenatal depressive or anxiety symptoms. The Social Support Rating Scale, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Edinburgh Depressive Postnatal Scale and the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale were used. Social support was found to have direct effects and moderating effects on the women's perceived stress on antenatal depressive and anxiety symptoms in multiple linear regression models. This knowledge of the separate effects of social support on behavioral health is important to psychiatric nurse in planning preventive interventions.
authors.affiliation: Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore; School of Health Sciences, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, China. Electronic address: nurly@nus.edu.sg.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Social Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Daniel Fu Keung
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.affiliation: Chengdu Women's and Children's Central Hospital, Chengdu, China.
authors.forename: Yuqiong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Health Sciences, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, China.
authors.forename: Dennis Ho Keung
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Kwong
authors.affiliation: Chengdu Women's and Children's Central Hospital, Chengdu, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012944:Social Support; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult