Abstract
The main objective of this research is to predict anxiety, depression and social function of NICU-hospitalized infants’ mothers compared to healthy infants; mothers. The methodology of research is descriptive in type of correlative and causative-comparative. Population included all mothers of NICU-hospitalized infants and healthy infants’ mothers in two Tehran Hospitals from June 2018 to September 2019. The main sample size was randomly selected. Sample size was calculated as 120 at this level based on Cochran’s table. The instruments were Beck’s (1969) anxiety and depression inventories, and Lekomet et al. (2014) social functioning questionnaire (SFQ). Data was analyzed using analysis of variance, multivariate and step-wise regression. The results implied that those NICU-hospitalized infants’ mothers experienced higher levels of depression and anxiety than healthy infants’ mothers. Moreover, formers had lower social functioning than latters. On the other hand, depression and anxiety were suitable predictors of mother’ social functioning and there was a significant relationship between depression and social functioning mediated by mother’s anxiety
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