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 Volume 10, Issue 3 (March 2023), Pages: 66-74

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 Original Research Paper

 Mother-infant bonding and its predictors among pregnant women in Saudi Arabia

 Author(s): 

 Laila A. Oraybi 1, *, Laila O. Yanbaawi 2

 Affiliation(s):

 1Academic Affairs and Training Administration, Ministry of Health, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
 2Primary and Preventive Health Care, Ministry of Health, Al Madinah Al Almunawara, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7463-3551

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2023.03.009

 Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to identify the predictive factors that encourage mother-infant bonding in pregnant women in the city of Jazan (Saudi Arabia). This is a descriptive cross-section study with 255 pregnant women who filled in the Mother-Infant Bonding Questionnaire, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and Relationship Assessment Scale. Data were analyzed using the t-test, analysis of variance, and regression analysis. The main results showed that pregnant women are generally geared toward a high level of bonding with their infants (3.34±2.080). Regression analysis indicated that a significant portion of the variance in the level of mother-infant bonding among pregnant women was attributed to spousal support, planned pregnancy, and working status. The three variables accounted for 28.6% of the variance in raising mother-infant bonding. This study demonstrated the significance of spousal support and planned pregnancy in the lives of pregnant women. As a result, spousal support during a planned pregnancy may affect feelings and behaviors toward the fetus that are more affectionate, caring, and concerned. Therefore, attention to these factors should be considered in planning to improve mother-infant bonding.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Pregnant women, Mother-infant bonding, Spousal support

 Article History: Received 10 September 2022, Received in revised form 30 November 2022, Accepted 4 December 2022

 Acknowledgment 

The researchers would like to thank all pregnant women at the participating clinics for facilitating and supporting data collection.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Ethical considerations 

The institutional review board (IRB) of the antenatal care clinics involved in this study was obtained (Ref. No. 2219). When a researcher met the participants, they were given a chance to leave the study at any time without interfering with their normal treatment. The researcher gave the women who agreed to participate in the study ample time to review the consent form before signing it. The consent form assured that all the information obtained from participants would be strictly confidential and anonymous and used for study purposes only and that their participation was voluntary. The researcher also coded the answers of the participants, so that it is difficult to recognize them.

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Oraybi LA and Yanbaawi LO (2023). Mother-infant bonding and its predictors among pregnant women in Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 10(3): 66-74

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