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Predictors of postpartum adjustment
Author(s) -
Robinson G. E.,
Olmsted M. P.,
Garner D. M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1989.tb03026.x
Subject(s) - spouse , pregnancy , psychological intervention , postpartum period , gestation , third trimester , medicine , second trimester , obstetrics , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , genetics , sociology , anthropology , biology
— Identification of uomen at risk for problems in postpartum adaptatin could allow interventions that might prevent difficulties. Eighty‐five women were followed from the second trimester of pregnancy to 12 months postpartum. One year postnatally, 27 women were found to have low global severity index scores on the Symptom Check List (SCL‐90) (≤ 0.16), while 17 women had high global severity index scores (≥ 0.46). The high scoring group were also significantly more dissatisfied with their marriages and their partners. The high scorers also had significantly higher global severity index scores and lower intimacy with spouse scores when measured at 12–16 weeks gestation. The SCL‐90 and the Miller Social Intimacy Scale, when used in the second trimester of pregnancy, appear to predict the women who may have adjustment problems in the postpartum period.