PATERNAL – NEWBORN BONDING AND ITS RELATED FACTORS

Depressing and anxiety of mother have confounding effect on Mother-Newborn
relationship. As Parent-Newborn Bonding is an interactive process which is related to different factors
in life, close father-newborn relationship can compensate the failed mother-newborn relationship.
Father-newborn bonding mostly occurs after birth in a slow process, and during newborn care.
Different factors such as marital satisfaction, age of to-be-father, number of children, and culture
affect it. This study tries to investigate Paternal – Newborn bonding and its related factors.
Materials & Methods: In this descriptive study, 100 parents of newborns in Tabriz 29 Bahman
Hospital was selected using sampling with proportional allocation. The data were collected using
newborn-parent demographic, and John Condon Paternal– Newborn Bonding Questionnaires. They
were analyzed using the SPSS software and statistical tests.
Results: The mean score of Bonding was 80.54±6.7 that indicates high level Bonding between fathers
and newborns. Statistical tests showed significant relationship between Father – Newborn Bonding
and birth age (p<0.01) and birth weight (p<0.05). There was no significant correlation between
Bonding score with other demographic data.
Conclusions: In case of the occurrence of premature birth and low birth weight infant, it is better to
increase the level of Father-Newborn Bonding score