Paternal - Newborn Bonding and its related factors

Depressing and anxiety of mother have confounding effect on Mother-Newborn relationship. As Parent-Newborn Bonding is an interactive process which is related to different factors in life, close father-newborn relationship can compensate the failed mother-newborn relationship. Father-newborn bonding mostly occurs after birth in a slow process, and during newborn care. Different factors such as marital satisfaction, age of to-be-father, number of children, and culture affect it. This study tries to investigate Paternal – Newborn bonding and its related factors. In this descriptive study, 100 parents of newborns in Tabriz 29 Bahman Hospital was selected using sampling with proportional allocation. The data were collected using newborn-parent demographic, and John Condon Paternal– Newborn Bonding Questionnaires. They were analyzed using the SPSS software and statistical tests. The mean score of Bonding was 80.54±6.7 that indicates high level Bonding between fathers and newborns. Statistical tests showed significant relationship between Father – Newborn Bonding and birth age (p<0.01) and birth weight (p<0.05). There was no significant correlation between Bonding score with other demographic data. In case of the occurrence of premature birth and low birth weight infant, it is better to increase the level of Father-Newborn Bonding score.