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A Research Test for Psychogenic Obstetrical Complications: A Preliminary Report

ABRAM BLAU, MD; JOAN WELKOWITZ, PhD; JACOB COHEN, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1964;10(4):324-331.

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Much clinical conviction among obstetricians and psychiatrists exists concerning the influence of psychological factors upon pregnancy in terms of sterility, spontaneous abortion, premature terminations, and complications of delivery. However, designed research on these significant perinatal conditions has been limited.

In this preliminary report, we offer for further research a self-rating attitude test (Maternal Attitude Toward Pregnancy Instrument, MAPI), developed from a retrospective psychiatric and psychologic study of mothers of premature infants.¹ Our findings seemed to support the hypothesis that the attitude toward the pregnancy influenced the course of the pregnancy. Subsequently, this test was constructed as a possible instrument to predict probable psychogenic premature interruptions and other complications of pregnancy.

Material and Procedure

Based on the clinical findings and ratings from our previous study of mothers of prematures and controls, self-rating opinion items were written. The items were focused on attitudes and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Child Psychiatry Division, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai Hospital.

Principal Investigator; Attending Psychiatrist in Charge (Dr. Blau), and Senior Research Psychologist (Dr. Welkowitz), Child Psychiatry Division; Research Consultant; Professor of Psychology, New York University (Dr. Cohen).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept 9, 1963.

This research was supported in part by grant No. M-2488 of the National Institute of Mental Health of the USPH. Service, and grant No. U-1052 of the Health Research Council of the City of New York.

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