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87.7% of South Korean mothers of young children experience 'very high' levels of maternal distress, with survey revealing worse responses to every question than a previous Australian sample

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Comparison of each item from the Being a Mother scale (BaM-13) between Korean and Australian mothers

image: Comparison of each item from the Being a Mother scale (BaM-13) between Korean and Australian mothers based on the percentage of those who provided a moderate-to-severe negative response (2 or 3 points). view more 

Credit: Lee et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

87.7% of South Korean mothers of young children experience "very high" levels of maternal distress, with survey revealing worse responses to every question than a previous Australian sample

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0274016

Article Title: An analysis of the very high level of maternal distress experienced by South Korean women with young children

Author Countries: Korea

Funding: This research was supported by a grant of the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (grant number: HI19C0481, HC19C0048). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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