{
  "creator": [
    "Ciuffo, Giulia",
    "Landoni, Marta",
    "Ionio, Chiara"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2025-08-29"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Background: Traumatic births impact women’s long-term health, family dynamics, and healthcare systems, underscoring the need for prevention and effective interventions. Despite Italy's universal healthcare, perinatal mental health services and guidelines, especially for childbirth-related PTSD (CB-PTSD), remain underdeveloped. This study aims to investigate the prevalence of CB-PTSD, postpartum depression (PPD), and anxiety in Italian women 6-12 weeks postpartum, and assess the impact of comorbidities on mother-child bonding. Method: The study was part of a broader longitudinal research that involved 175 Italian mothers 6-12 weeks postpartum, recruited from birthing centers. Participants completed measures for childbirth-related PTSD (City BiTS-IT), depression (EPDS), anxiety (PSAS-IT), and mother-child bonding (PBQ). Results: Prevalence rates were 1.1% for CB-PTSD, 18.6% for depression, and 30.2% for anxiety. Depression was significantly associated with anxiety (χ2(1, N = 159) = 9.131, p = .003) and CB-PTSD (χ2(1, N = 171) = 11.689, p < .001). Hierarchical regression showed that depression and general PTSD symptoms significantly impaired mother-child bonding, explaining 36.3% of the variance (R2 = 0.363). Conclusion: The findings highlight the prevalence and complexity of perinatal psychiatric morbidity, emphasizing the critical need for comprehensive assessment tools tailored to the Italian context. These results contribute to a deeper understanding of maternal mental health challenges during the perinatal period."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf",
    "text/html",
    "text/xml"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/15117",
    "10.32872/cpe.15117"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/15117/15117.pdf",
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/15117/15117.html",
    "https://cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cpe/article/view/15117/15117.xml"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2025 Giulia Ciuffo, Marta Landoni, Chiara Ionio",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Clinical Psychology in Europe; Vol. 7 No. 3 (2025); 1-17",
    "2625-3410",
    "10.32872/cpe.v7i3"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "post-traumatic stress disorder",
    "birth",
    "recommendations",
    "policy",
    "perinatal",
    "screening"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Assessing Perinatal Psychiatric Morbidity: Implications for Maternal Mental Health Care in Italy"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}