We performed unadjusted ANOVAs for the men in the study group, with six independent variables (i.e., severity of fetal anomaly, paternal age, number of previous children, education, gestational age at assessments, and time interval from suspicion of fetal anomaly to assessments).
To develop a quantitative in situ structural health-monitoring system, which measures the scattered wave field using piezoelectric sensors, that can determine the size and severity of structural anomaly in plate-like structures, it is important to characterize the interaction of plate waves with damages.
Severity of the anomaly including ambiguity significantly influenced paternal response.
However, that study did not address the association between the psychological response and the severity of the anomaly, and all distress assessments were performed postpartum.
We hypothesised that the distress level was related to severity of the anomaly, diagnostic and prognostic ambiguity, and advanced gestational age.
In a previous study we showed that maternal psychological distress shortly after detection of a fetal malformation was related to the severity of the anomaly, diagnostic and prognostic ambiguity, and gestational age [ 1].
Adjusted ANOVAs in the study group of men with the same explanatory variables showed that diagnostic and prognostic severity of fetal anomaly was significant for all IES subscales (i.e. intrusion, p < 0.001; avoidance, p = 0.024; arousal, p = 0.004) and sum EPDS (p = 0.001).
The correlation of psychometric measurements within couples in the study group is probably explained by the severity of fetal anomaly; this is the same for each couple and is the independent variable with the greatest explanatory value to the psychological distress in both men and women [ 1].
The state of degradation is evaluated through visual inspections that allow the description of the extent of the cladding area affected by the different anomalies, thereby enabling the level of severity of the anomalies detected to be established.
