Birth Weight, Domestic Violence, Coping, Social Support, and Mental Health of Young Iranian Mothers in Tehran

@article{Abadi2013BirthWD,
  title={Birth Weight, Domestic Violence, Coping, Social Support, and Mental Health of Young Iranian Mothers in Tehran},
  author={Mozhdeh Nasseh Lotf Abadi and Mehdi Ghazinour and Lennart Nygren and Marzieh Nojomi and J{\"o}rg Richter},
  journal={The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease},
  year={2013},
  volume={201},
  pages={602–608}
}
Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate associations of birth weight with sociodemographic variables, domestic violence, ways of coping, social support, and general mental health of Iranian mothers. Six hundred mothers aged 15 to 29 years participated between June 2009 and November 2010. t-Test, analysis of variance, Spearman’s correlation, and multiple regression were used. The results showed that there was no significant association between birth weight and general mental health of… 
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