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Relationship satisfaction among mothers of children with congenital heart defects: a prospective case-cohort study
Maria T G Dale1, Oivind Solberg, Henrik Holmstrøm
1Department of Psychosomatics and Health Behavior, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway. MariaTeresaGronning.Dale@fhi.no
Objective:
To assess the level of partner relationship satisfaction among mothers of children with different severity of congenital heart defects (CHD) compared with mothers in the cohort.
Methods:
Mothers of children with mild, moderate, or severe CHD (n = 182) and a cohort of mothers of children without CHD (n = 46,782) from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study were assessed at 5 time points from pregnancy to 36 months postpartum. A 5-item version of the Relationship Satisfaction scale was used, and relevant covariates were explored.
Results:
The trajectories of relationship satisfaction among mothers of children with varying CHD severity did not differ from the trajectories in the cohort. All women in the cohort experienced decreasing relationship satisfaction from 18 months after delivery up to 36 months after delivery.
Conclusions:
Having a child with CHD, regardless of severity, does not appear to exacerbate the decline in relationship satisfaction.
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