Association of Child-mother (Resident doctors) Separation with psychological health of the child – Cross-Sectional and Empirical assessment in Baghdad Medical City

Abstract

Introduction: Childhood psychiatric disorders are generally treatable; however, they often go undetected and remain untreated. As an attachment figure, a family mother is a highly significant entity in shaping the child's later emotional, societal, and behavioral outcomes.

Objectives: Maternal employment might benefit children's physical health by increasing parents' capability to live a more sophisticated or satisfied life. However, it may decrease the mother's potential to care for supervision, leading to socio-emotional difficulties, like indulging in sedentary activities.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was carried out as a quantitative approach, obtaining the resident doctors and children of them 110 respondents from Baghdad medical centers. In this line, resident doctors (female) with their irregular working schedules, work responsibilities stress, and migration of workplace at least 3 or more times in study course could affect their potential as a mother to explore child care attachment in fulfilling their child's psychiatric needs and hence approach to multiple caregivers.

Result: The study expounded that nearly 29.60% of scores acquired by the study group (children of resident doctors undergoing separation) children in the abnormal range, specifically in the peer problem dimension, with comparison outcomes of 9.30% in control-group children. Further, the behavioral and emotional difficulties of the study group, in accordance with impairment and distress, were significantly higher than the control group.

Conclusion: Psychiatry consultation and Psychological assessment could be put forwards for special children, which causes impairment and distress in their life later. Mothers should pay more attention to psychological intervention, facilitating support and attachment periodically.