Can Social Support in the Guise of an Oral Health Education Intervention Promote Mother-Infant Bonding in Chinese Immigrant Mothers and Their Infants?

Autor/inn/en	Yuan, Si-Yang; Freeman, Ruth
Titel	Can Social Support in the Guise of an Oral Health Education Intervention Promote Mother-Infant Bonding in Chinese Immigrant Mothers and Their Infants?
Quelle	In: Health Education Journal, 70 (2011) 1, S.57-66 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0017-8969
DOI	10.1177/0017896910366186
Schlagwörter	Control Groups; Quasiexperimental Design; Intervention; Health Education; Mothers; Infants; Rejection (Psychology); Immigrants; Social Support Groups; Cultural Awareness; Parent Child Relationship; Social Isolation; Asians; Mother Attitudes; Attachment Behavior; Psychological Patterns; Anxiety; Foreign Countries; China; United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Mother; Mutter; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Ablehnung; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Soziale Isolation; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Mutterliebe; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Angst; Ausland
Abstract	Objective: To examine if social support in the guise of a culturally sensitive, community-based oral health intervention could promote mother-infant bonding in socially-isolated immigrant mothers. Design: A quasi-experimental design. Participants: A convenience sample of 36 Chinese immigrant mothers with 8-week-old infants was divided into intervention and control groups. Intervention: The ChIME (Chinese Immigrant Mothers oral health Education) programme, a culturally-sensitive oral health education intervention included social support elements. Intervention mothers had five home-visits augmented by telephone calls and open access to the first author (SY). All mothers completed the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire (PBQ) at baseline, when the infant was aged six months and 12 months. The PBQ screened for impaired mother-infant bonding. Results: At baseline, the Chinese mothers had significantly greater mean scores for bonding disorder; rejection and pathological anger and for incipient abuse compared with normative values but equivalent mean scores when compared with normative values for depressed mothers. At 12-month follow-up the intervention compared with control group mothers had significantly greater decreases in mean scores for bonding disorder, rejection and pathological anger and infant-centred anxiety. Conclusion: Social support provided within the guise of a culturally-sensitive oral health education programme assisted socially-isolated immigrant mothers to improve the quality of their relationship with their infants. (Contains 3 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10