Sentence examples for maternal state from inspiring English sources
Maternal state anxiety improved daily, indicating a cumulative dose effect.
Aim: To determine whether maternal state and trait anxiety levels affect fetal movements or fetal heart rate (FHR) in the third trimester.
This present study was undertaken to determine if music during KC has a greater effect than KC alone, on maternal state anxiety (MSA) in the early postpartum period.
In fetuses with FHR pattern D, the duration of FHR pattern D increased with increasing maternal trait anxiety scores, (rho=0.88; p=0.008), and FHR variability in FHR pattern D increased with maternal state and trait anxiety scores (r=0.86, p=0.01; r=0.96, p=0.001).
By contrast, in complex cases, the maternal state consists of compound perturbations, such that it is often unclear which specific perturbations of the fetal environment are responsible for the adverse fetal outcomes [5], [6].
If environmentally induced variation in maternal state produces the correlations normally seen between digit ratio and behavioral traits, then the uniform lab environment in which our mice were raised may account for the lack of correlations seen in this study.
Understanding of the mechanisms involved is hampered by difficulty in isolating individual elements of complex maternal states in vivo.
Even though the literature suggests that milk production and content vary throughout the day, as well as throughout lactation (Mitoulas et al. 2002), for the purposes of a PBPK model we assumed that lactational performance was constant, even over a wide range of maternal states (Butte et al. 1984).
When assessed separately by parental gender, in the maternal group, state anxiety decreased significantly (ANOVA, p<0.05).
The current study investigated determinants of pain perception during ECV, with special attention to maternal mental state such as depression and fear of ECV.
To the best of our knowledge this study is the first in fish to demonstrate a possible link between the maternal endocrinological state at spawning and the offspring's behavioural reactivity to novel situations.
