A comparitive study to assess the stress and coping strategies among employed and home-based antenatal mothers of selected urban areas at Bangalore.

Abstract

- Abstract: Every individual will experience stress, if any event has been occurred in an imbalance manner, which disrupts equilibrium state.Pregnancy can be stressful as women face a barrage of tests financial worries and Uncertainties about what child birth and motherhood will bring. A women’s experience of pregnancy and childbirth will most likely affect her role as a mother, her perceptions of the child and herself, and her relationship with her partner. Objectives: To assess the level of stress among the employed and home-based antenatal mother and to identify the coping strategies followed by employed and homebased antenatal mothers and to correlate the stress and coping strategies among the employed and homebased antenatal mothers. Methodology: A comparative study to assess the stress and coping strategies among the employed and home based antenatal mothers. Settings are urban areas of Banglore. Samples are employed and home-based antenatal mothers. Data collection period of 6 weeks. Sample size 50 employed and 50 home-based antenatal mothers. Samples were selected by using convenient sampling technique. The tool used for the data collection was structured interview schedule. Results: there was a significant level of stress on various factors among employed and home based antenatal mothers. Conclusion: The‘t’ test was computed between stress and coping scores indicate there was no significance between the correlation of stress and coping in employed antenatal mothers and home based antenatal mothers. Key words: Stress, Coping Strategies, Employed antenatal mother, Home-based antenatal mother.