Relationship Between Prenatal Maternal Distress and the Quality of General Movements at 3 Months

The variation, complexity and fluency of movements over a video recording is done and the quality of GMs is classified as normal-optimal, normal-suboptimal, mildly abnormal, and definitely abnormal movements.

The scale consists of 20 items in total and provides a four-point Likert type measurement (1- anxiety symptom is not present, 4- the symptom lasts all the time). Scores range from 20 (low anxiety) to 80 (high anxiety).

BDI contains 21 items and rates the depressive symptoms for the last week. Each item has four options and is scored between 0 and 3. The total score ranges from 0 to 63. Higher scores indicate more severe depression