Abstract

MAGGI, Alice; PRUX, Helen Dalla Santa  and  PALMA, Yáskara Arrial. Risk babies: picossocial characterization of the mothers and the possibilities of psychological interventions. Aletheia [online]. 2009, n.30, pp. 129-141. ISSN 1413-0394.

The study characterizes mothers of risk babies interned in a unit of intensive therapy, detecting measured of anxiety and depression and apprehending its conceptions and feelings front to the current moment, involving the cares with the baby and the net of existing social support. 22 mothers took part in the study, ages varying between 16 and 40 years. Most babies were in hospital for being premature and having other complications associated or not to prematurity, which characterized risk and intensive care. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory had been used as instruments and a half-directed interview. The results pointed to significant associations as to depression and anxiety-trait and anxiety-state and anxiety-trait, interpreted as belonging to risk. The high frequency of categories revealing a support network and knowledge enough about the treatment points out to possibilities of protection.

Keywords : Risk babies mothers; Anxiety; Depression.

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