Table 3.

Significant correlations between socio-demographic, physical, and means of maternal mental health outcome variables

	IES	GHQ Likert	GHQ case	STAI-X1
Mother
Age	43*
Previous psychological treatment	0.37*	0.53**	0.36*
Parity	0.36*	0.49**	0.38*
Trait anxiety (STAI-X2)	0.35*			0.56**
Pregnancy/birth
Preeclampsia	0.46**	0.56**	0.48**
Vaginal delivery		−0.44**	−0.44**
Caesarean		0.41*	0.41*
Acute Caesarean			0.35*
Planned Caesarean				−0.45**
IVF	0.34*
Bleeding in pregnancy		−0.57**	−0.52**
Child
CPAP less than 5 days			-.36*
IVHa	.37*

Assessment at the infant's 6-month post-term age (T2) and the infant's 18-month post-term age (T3). Pearson's correlation coefficients (p < 0.05) are reported. N = 33. *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two-tailed); **correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed). ^aIntraventricular haemorrhage, grade 1 or 2 shortly after birth.