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| Barbara FigueiredoSummaryAffiliation: University of Minho Country: Portugal Publications
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Teenage pregnancy, attachment style, and depression: a comparison of teenage and adult pregnant women in a Portuguese seriesBarbara Figueiredo
University of Minho, Portugal
Attach Hum Dev 8:123-38. 2006..Insecure attachment style should be addressed in prevention and intervention strategies with teenage mothers...- Mother's anxiety and depression during the third pregnancy trimester and neonate's mother versus stranger's face/voice visual preferenceBarbara Figueiredo
School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Early Hum Dev 86:479-85. 2010..Neonates show visual preference for their mother's face/voice and shift their attention from their mother to a stranger's face/voice after habituation... - Mother's stress, mood and emotional involvement with the infant: 3 months before and 3 months after childbirthBarbara Figueiredo
Department of Psychology, Minho University, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 057, Braga, Portugal
Arch Womens Ment Health 12:143-53. 2009..It should be given more attention to mother's poor emotional involvement with the offspring during pregnancy, as it interferes with her emotional involvement with the infant and her psychological adjustment 3 months after childbirth... - Mother-to-infant emotional involvement at birthBarbara Figueiredo
Department of Psychology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga 4700 320, Portugal
Matern Child Health J 13:539-49. 2009.... - Depression during pregnancy and the postpartum period in adolescent and adult Portuguese mothersB Figueiredo
Department of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Arch Womens Ment Health 10:103-9. 2007..To study prevalence as well as risk factors for pregnancy and postpartum depression in a sample of adolescent and adult Portuguese mothers... - Anxiety and depression symptoms in women and men from early pregnancy to 3-months postpartum: parity differences and effectsBarbara Figueiredo
School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal
J Affect Disord 132:146-57. 2011..This study aimed to investigate both anxiety and depression symptoms from early pregnancy to 3-months postpartum, comparing women and men and first and second-time parents... - Mother's anxiety and depression and associated risk factors during early pregnancy: effects on fetal growth and activity at 20-22 weeks of gestationAna Conde
School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
J Psychosom Obstet Gynaecol 31:70-82. 2010..Vulnerability of fetal development to mother's psychological symptoms as well as to other sociodemographic and substance consumption risk factors during early and mid pregnancy is suggested... - Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale: a psychometric study in a Portuguese sampleRaquel Costa
Department of Psychology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
Infant Behav Dev 33:510-7. 2010..Data analysis is usually performed by organizing items into groups. The most widely used data reduction for the NBAS was developed by Lester, Als, and Brazelton (1982)... - Physical activity, health-related quality of life and depression during pregnancyIva Tendais
Escola de Psicologia, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Cad Saude Publica 27:219-28. 2011..These data suggest that physical activity patterns change with pregnancy and that physical and mental components are differentially affected by pregnancy course, independently of physical activity status... - Anxiety and depression during pregnancy in women and menCesar Teixeira
Department of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal
J Affect Disord 119:142-8. 2009.... - Anxiety and depression in women and men from early pregnancy to 3-months postpartumBarbara Figueiredo
School of Psychology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710 057 Braga, Portugal
Arch Womens Ment Health 14:247-55. 2011..Considering that 15.9% of the parents-to-be were highly anxious and/or depressed during pregnancy-comparing to 9.3% at 3-months postpartum-particular attention should be drawn to both women's and men's mental health early in pregnancy... - Attachment style and psychological adjustment in couplesAna Conde
School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal
Attach Hum Dev 13:271-91. 2011..It is important to assess attachment style and partner support of both members, as well as the mutual interplay between them, to understand gendered differences in psychological adjustment of a couple expecting a baby... - Infant's psychophysiological profile and temperament at 3 and 12 monthsRaquel Costa
University of Minho, School of Psychology, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal
Infant Behav Dev 34:270-9. 2011..The results corroborate that infant's characteristics early in life as well as contextual factors influence with mothers' perception of infant temperament and with changes across the 1st year of life... - Prenatal cortisol, prematurity and low birthweightTiffany Field
Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, FL 33101, USA
Infant Behav Dev 29:268-75. 2006..Discriminant function analyses suggested that cortisol levels more accurately classified short gestation and low birthweight groups than CES-D depression scores... - Prenatal paternal depressionTiffany Field
Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami School of Medicine, P O Box 016820, Miami, FL 33101, United States
Infant Behav Dev 29:579-83. 2006..However, the similarity between the scores of depressed mothers and depressed fathers highlights the importance of screening for depression in fathers-to-be as well as mothers-to-be during pregnancy... - Sleep disturbances in depressed pregnant women and their newbornsTiffany Field
Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami School of Medicine, United States
Infant Behav Dev 30:127-33. 2007..The newborns of the depressed mothers also had more sleep disturbances including less time in deep sleep and more time in indeterminate (disorganized) sleep, and they were more active and cried/fussed more... - Prenatal serotonin and neonatal outcome: brief reportTiffany Field
Touch Research Institute, University of Miami Medical School, United States
Infant Behav Dev 31:316-20. 2008 - Chronic prenatal depression and neonatal outcomeTiffany Field
Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33101, USA
Int J Neurosci 118:95-103. 2008..Comorbid problems were chronically high anxiety, anger, sleep disturbance, and pain scores. Less optimal outcomes for the depressed women included lower gestational age and lower birthweight of their newborns... - Prenatal dysthymia versus major depression effects on maternal cortisol and fetal growthTiffany Field
Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33101, USA
Depress Anxiety 25:E11-6. 2008..Thus, depressed pregnant women with Dysthymia and Major Depression appeared to have different prenatal symptoms...