Investigating The Relationship Between Anxiety Level and Maternal Attachment in Mothers With a Baby in The Neonatal Newborn Care Unit

The study was conducted to investigate the relationship between anxiety level and maternal attachment in women whose babies were in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The study, conducted with 140 women whose babies were admitted to the hospital's NICU between April 2022 and September 2022, was planned in a descriptive and correlational design. Data were collected by face-to-face interview using the "Mother-Infant Description Questionnaire", the "Visual Analog Scale (VAS)", the "Mother-Infant Attachment Scale (MIAS)" and the "Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)". The mean age of the mothers was 28.48±5.66 years. The average total scores of the mothers were as follows: MICS= 14.85±2.13 and BAS= 7.21±6.33. It was found that the mothers who could not participate in the care of the baby had higher MICS scores (p= 0.045). It was found that mothers who attended regular check-ups during pregnancy had lower BAI scores (p= 0.005). Participants who received support from their mothers/fathers (p=0.021), husband (p=0.018) and friends (p=0.040) had lower BAI scores (p