Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire.
PBQ
- What it measures
- mother-to-infant bonding in the postpartum period - Impaired Bonding, Rejection and Anger, Anxiety about Care, and Risk of Abuse
- Length and format
- 25 (4 subscales). 6-point frequency (0 always to 5 never); higher = more bonding difficulty; screening cut-offs per subscale (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- many incl. DE, IT, JA, NL, ES, FR; validated across numerous countries
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Brockington, I. F., Oates, J., George, S., et al. (2001). A screening questionnaire for mother-infant bonding disorders. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 3(4), 133-140.
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