@article{Pangzup_Phahuwatanakorn_Yusamran_Boriboonhirunsarn_2018, title={Influence of Age, Planned Pregnancy, Stress and Marital Relationship on Maternal-Infant Attachment in Postpartum Mothers with Inadequate Prenatal Care}, volume={36}, url={https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ns/article/view/146972}, abstractNote={<p>         <strong>Purpose:</strong> To determine predictive power of age, planned pregnancy, stress and marital relationship on maternal-Infant attachment during postpartum in mothers with inadequate prenatal care.<br>         <strong>Design:</strong> A correlational predictive design.<br>        <strong> Methods:</strong> The samples consisted of 134 postpartum mothers who delivered at a university hospital in Bangkok. The data were collected through questionnaires: the personal information, Stress Inventory, the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, and the Maternal Attachment Inventory. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis were used for the analyses.<br>         <strong>Main findings:</strong> The result of the study shows that 65.7 percent of the subjects has a medium score of maternal-infant attachment. Age, planned pregnancy, stress, and marital relationship together predicted maternal-infant attachment, which accounted for 28% (Nagelkerke R<sup>2</sup> = .280) of variance of maternal-infant attachment during postpartum in mothers with inadequate prenatal care. Particularly, age and stress significantly predicted maternal-infant attachment at p < .01. Teenage mothers were 4.19 times more likely to have low maternal-infant attachment than mothers who are 20 years old and older. Stressful mothers were 3.81 times more likely to have low maternalinfant attachment than mothers with no stress (OR = 4.19; 95%CI [1.57, 11.17], and OR = 3.81; 95%CI [1.67, 8.67], respectively). <br>         <strong>Conclusion and recommendations:</strong> Age and stress can influence maternal-infant attachment. Therefore, nurses and midwives should concern and  promote attachment-bonding to teenage mothers, especially those with stress during postpartum period.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Nursing Science Journal of Thailand}, author={Pangzup, Saowaros and Phahuwatanakorn, Wanna and Yusamran, Chaweewan and Boriboonhirunsarn, Dittakarn}, year={2018}, month={Sep.}, pages={34–45} }