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Cristina Sechi

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Perinatal Parenting Stress, Anxiety, and Depression Outcomes in First-Time Mothers and Fathers: A 3- to 6-Months Postpartum Follow-Up Study

2016

Objective: Although there is an established link between parenting stress, postnatal depression, and anxiety, no study has yet investigated this link in first-time parental couples. The specific aims of this study were 1) to investigate whether there were any differences between first-time fathers’ and mothers’ postnatal parenting stress, anxiety, and depression symptoms and to see their evolution between three and 6 months after their child’s birth; and 2) to explore how each parent’s parenting stress and anxiety levels and the anxiety levels and depressive symptoms of their partners contributed to parental postnatal depression. Method: The sample included 362 parents (181 couples; mothers…

Persistence (psychology)Settore M-PSI/07 - PSICOLOGIA DINAMICAtransition to parenthood mothers fathers parenting stress perinatal anxiety postnatal depression follow-up studypostnatal depressionPsychological interventionfathersSettore M-PSI/08 - PSICOLOGIA CLINICADevelopmental psychology03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineparenting stressmedicinePsychology030212 general & internal medicineGeneral PsychologyDepression (differential diagnoses)Original ResearchPostpartum anxietyFollow up studiesParenting stressfollow-up studyperinatal anxietymothersEdinburgh Postnatal Depression Scaletransition to parenthoodAnxietymedicine.symptomPsychology030217 neurology & neurosurgeryClinical psychologyFrontiers in Psychology
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Effects of COVID‐19 lockdown on eating disorders and obesity: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

2021

Abstract Objective This systematic review and meta‐analysis aimed to examine: the pooled prevalence of symptomatic behaviours and mental health deterioration amongst individuals with eating disorders (EDs) and obesity during the COVID‐19 confinement. Moreover, we examined changes in EDs and distress before and during the confinement, and the association between psychosocial factors and EDs symptoms. Method A systematic search was carried out in biomedical databases from January 2020 to January 2021. Both cross‐sectional and longitudinal studies that used quantitative measures of ED symptoms and psychological distress during and after the COVID‐19 confinement were included. Results A total o…

Malemedicine.medical_specialtyobesityReviewsRevieweating disordersAnorexia nervosaFeeding and Eating Disorderssystematic reviewCOVID‐19medicineHumansPsychiatryDepression (differential diagnoses)business.industrySARS-CoV-2distressCOVID-19medicine.diseasemeta-analysisPsychiatry and Mental healthClinical PsychologyEating disordersDistressCross-Sectional Studiesmeta‐analysisMeta-analysisCommunicable Disease ControlAnxietyFemalemedicine.symptombusinessPsychosocialBody mass indexEuropean Eating Disorders Review
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Parenting Stress, Mental Health, Dyadic Adjustment: A Structural Equation Model

2017

Objective: In the 1st year of the post-partum period, parenting stress, mental health, and dyadic adjustment are important for the wellbeing of both parents and the child. However, there are few studies that analyze the relationship among these three dimensions. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between parenting stress, mental health (depressive and anxiety symptoms), and dyadic adjustment among first-time parents. Method: We studied 268 parents (134 couples) of healthy babies. At 12 months post-partum, both parents filled out, in a counterbalanced order, the Parenting Stress Index-Short Form, the Edinburgh Post-natal Depression Scale, the State-Trait Anxiety Invent…

Mediation (statistics)Equation modelPsychology (all)Post-natal depressionlcsh:BF1-990equation model parenting stress dyadic adjustment parenthood mental health perinatal anxiety post-natal depression050105 experimental psychologyStructural equation modelingDevelopmental psychology03 medical and health sciencesSettore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Psicologia Dell'Educazione0302 clinical medicinePerinatal anxietyParenting stremedicineDyadic adjustmentPsychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesM-PSI/07 - PSICOLOGIA DINAMICAGeneral PsychologyOriginal Research05 social sciencesParenting stressMental healthParenthoodlcsh:PsychologyParenting stressScale (social sciences)Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scalebehavior and behavior mechanismsAnxietyDyadic adjustment; Equation model; Mental health; Parenthood; Parenting stress; Perinatal anxiety; Post-natal depression; Psychology (all)Mental healthmedicine.symptomPsychology030217 neurology & neurosurgeryPostpartum period
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