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 Paternal – Newborn Bonding and its related factors  Arshadi Bostanabad M[1] , Valizadeh S[2] , Rezanezhad J[3], Jabbari T[4]  Received: 14 Jul , 2014 Accepted: 16 Sep , 2014  Abstract  Background &Aims : Depressing and anxiety of mother have confounding effect on Mother-Newborn relationship. As Parent-Newborn Bonding is an interactive process which is related to different factors in life, close father-newborn relationship can compensate the failed mother-newborn relationship. Father-newborn bonding mostly occurs after birth in a slow process, and during newborn care. Different factors such as marital satisfaction, age of to-be-father, number of children, and culture affect it. This study tries to investigate Paternal – Newborn bonding and its related factors.  Materials & Methods: In this descriptive study, 100 parents of newborns in Tabriz 29 Bahman Hospital was selected using sampling with proportional allocation. The data were collected using newborn-parent demographic, and John Condon Paternal– Newborn Bonding Questionnaires. They were analyzed using the SPSS software and statistical tests.  Results: The mean score of Bonding was 80.54±6.7 that indicates high level Bonding between fathers and newborns. Statistical tests showed significant relationship between Father – Newborn Bonding and birth age (p

Keywords: Fathers, Newborn, Bonding

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