@article{ref1,
title="Validation of the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale for infant maltreatment by mothers at one month postpartum: an adjunct study of the Japan Environment and Children's Study",
journal="Japan Medical Association journal",
year="2022",
author="Nishigori, Toshie and Obara, Taku and Metoki, Hirohito and Sakurai, Kasumi and Mori, Miyuki and Suzuki, Taeko and Ishikuro, Mami and Tatsuta, Nozomi and Saito, Masatoshi and Sugawara, Junichi and Arima, Takahiro and Nakai, Kunihiko and Kuriyama, Shinichi and Yaegashi, Nobuo and Nishigori, Hidekazu",
volume="5",
number="3",
pages="366-369",
abstract="Bonding failure is a mental disorder among parents characterized by reduced affection and anger toward, rejection of, and impulse to harm the infant (1), (2). The Japanese version of the Mother-to-Infant Bonding Scale (MIBS-J) has been widely used as a screening tool for assessing mother-to-infant bonding failure at 1 month postpartum to ensure mother-infant care support so as to prevent infant maltreatment in Japan (3), (4), (5), (6). An MIBS-J overall score of 4/5 at 1 month postpartum was suggested as the cutoff score for indicating infant maltreatment by mothers (5). The MIBS-J has two subscales, namely, lack of affection and anger/rejection (3), (7). In the present study, we evaluated the validity of the overall MIBS-J and its subscales for infant maltreatment by mothers at 1 month postpartum as an adjunct to the Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS)...<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2433-328X",
doi="10.31662/jmaj.2022-0041",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.31662/jmaj.2022-0041"
}