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Mother‘s Assessment of the Behavior of her Infant (MABI)
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Weekly assessments of infant’s behavior by the mother for 1 month
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Hart, Field, and Nearing (1998)
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Depressed mothers (CESD ≥ 16) and their newborn infants
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Mothers trained in hospital maternity unit followed by use of assessment instrument at home
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Parent-child focused comprehensive program
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Multicomponent intervention delivered over 3 months
Intervention included day care for the infants; social, educational, and vocational programs for the mothers; mood induction interventions for the mothers; infant massage therapy; and mother-infant interaction coaching
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Field et al. (2000)
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Adolescent mothers with depressive symptoms selected based on predictor variables and their infants; predictor variables: low interaction scores and elevated norepinephrine, serotonin, and cortisol at neonatal stage; increased right frontal EEG and low vagal tone at 3 months’ postpartum
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Public vocational high school
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