Study Participants
depression, anxiety
This study included 71 infants (31 twins [44%]) and 56 mothers in the PCERA analysis at 4 months. Infants had a mean (SD) gestational age of 31 weeks 3 (1.3) days and a mean (SD) birthweight of 1535 (408) g; 42 (59%) were boys and 29 (41%) were girls. Mothers had a mean (SD) age of 32 (4.9) years; 32 (57%) were primiparous. A total of 37 infants were allocated to standard care and 34 to SSC with either parent after birth. Baseline characteristics of infants and mothers, including depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and parenting stress, were distributed equally between groups, except there were more boys and first-time mothers in the SSC group (