TY - JOUR
T1 - The Roles of Social Support in Helping Chinese Women with Antenatal Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms Cope With Perceived Stress
AU - Lau, Ying
AU - Wong, Daniel Fu Keung
AU - Wang, Yuqiong
AU - Kwong, Dennis Ho Keung
AU - Wang, Ying
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - A community-based sample of 755 pregnant Chinese women were recruited to test the direct and moderating effects of social support in mitigating perceived stress associated with antenatal depressive or anxiety symptoms. The Social Support Rating Scale, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Edinburgh Depressive Postnatal Scale and the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale were used. Social support was found to have direct effects and moderating effects on the women's perceived stress on antenatal depressive and anxiety symptoms in multiple linear regression models. This knowledge of the separate effects of social support on behavioral health is important to psychiatric nurse in planning preventive interventions.
AB - A community-based sample of 755 pregnant Chinese women were recruited to test the direct and moderating effects of social support in mitigating perceived stress associated with antenatal depressive or anxiety symptoms. The Social Support Rating Scale, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Edinburgh Depressive Postnatal Scale and the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale were used. Social support was found to have direct effects and moderating effects on the women's perceived stress on antenatal depressive and anxiety symptoms in multiple linear regression models. This knowledge of the separate effects of social support on behavioral health is important to psychiatric nurse in planning preventive interventions.
U2 - 10.1016/j.apnu.2014.05.009
DO - 10.1016/j.apnu.2014.05.009
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0883-9417
VL - 28
SP - 305
EP - 313
JO - Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
JF - Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
IS - 5
ER -