%0 Journal Article %T Prenatal attachment in women with twin versus singleton pregnancy: Socio-demographic, mental health and pregnancy-related predictors %+ Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé (LPPS (URP_4057)) %+ CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP] %+ CHU Amiens-Picardie %+ Groupe de Recherche sur l'Analyse Multimodale de la Fonction Cérébrale - UMR INSERM_S 1105 (GRAMFC) %A Wendland, Jaqueline %A Galli, Lea %A Benarous, Xavier %< avec comité de lecture %@ 0378-3782 %J Early Human Development %I Elsevier %V 182 %P 105789 %8 2023-07 %D 2023 %R 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2023.105789 %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]Journal articles %X BackgroundWhile twin pregnancy (TP) is associated with increased maternal physical and psychological risks, little is known about how this context interferes with prenatal attachment.AimsTo compare the level of prenatal attachment between women with TP and singleton pregnancy (SP), and to investigate socio-demographic, maternal mental health and pregnancy-related predictors.Study designCase-control study in a university hospital.Subjects119 women with TP during their last trimester of pregnancy versus 103 women with SP.Outcome measuresThe Prenatal Attachment Inventory (PAI), the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), in addition to the collection of general socio-demographic and medical data.ResultsThe mean PAI total score did not significantly differ between the two groups. In the group of women with TP, low but statistically significant correlations were found between the PAI total score and the EPDS total score (r = −0.21) and with maternal age (r = −0.20).ConclusionsNo major difference in prenatal attachment was found in women TP compared to those with SP. A higher level of depressive symptoms is worth considering to explore the risk of suboptimal attachment in this population. Questions were raised about the applicability of usual measures of prenatal attachment in this context. %G English %L hal-04105127 %U https://u-picardie.hal.science/hal-04105127 %~ UNIV-PICARDIE %~ APHP %~ SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE %~ SORBONNE-UNIV %~ SU-MEDECINE %~ SU-MED %~ UNIV-PARIS %~ UNIVERSITE-PARIS %~ UP-SOCIETES-HUMANITES %~ U-PICARDIE %~ GRAMFC %~ ALLIANCE-SU