Abstract
Background: Premature birth is highly stressful experience for mothers and elevatedlevel of stress and depressive symptoms for mothers. the aim of this study was to assessdepression , stress symptoms among mothers of premature infants admitted to neonatalintensive care unit. Design: a descriptive exploratory design was utilized in this study.Setting: the study was conducted at neonatal intensive care unit at Sidi Salem generalhospital. Subject: the sample consisted of 90 mothers of premature infant selected fromneonatal intensive care unit. Tools: three tools were used for data collection: tool (1): sociodemographic sheet Tool (2): parental stress scale is used to assess mothers stress andperception related to neonatal intensive care unit. Tool (3): the Edinburgh post nataldepression scale is used to identify depressive symptoms among mothers. Results: the resultof present study, revealed that two fifth of Mothers at Risk exposure to high level of stressrelated to admission of infant to Neonatal intensive care unit .there is statistically significancerelation between mother age and resident with Level of depression .Conclusion: this studyconcluded that statistically high significant relation between level of total stress and totaldepression among mothers under this study, correlation between mother's total scoredepression and total score of stress show positive correlation and high significant betweenmother's total score of depression and total score of stress. Recommendations: -designtraining programs for mother of premature baby at neonatal intensive care unit improvespsychological status and -psychosocial education programs by providers and hospitaladministration about prevalence of postpartum depression and its impact and benefits ofscreening.
Highlights
Premature birth is often a traumatic event for mothers that could cause in traumare1ated symptoms, such as symptoms of avoidance, intrusion andhyper-arousa1, negative states of mind and feelings, such as anxiety, hostility, inertia, depression, and bewilderment, and stress re1ated to the Neonata1 Intensive Care Unit (NICU) perception, the baby’s conditions and the perception of an altered parental ro1e (1)
Aim of the study This study was aimed to assess depression and stress symptoms of mothers of premature infants admitted to neonata[1] intensive care unit at saidi salem general hospital Research Question: The fo11owing research questions were conducted from this study 1- What are the depression symptoms facing mother of preterm infants admitted to neonata[1] intensive care unit? 2- What are the stress symptoms facing mother of preterm infants admitted to neonata[1] intensive care unit ? Subjects and methods: Research design: A descriptive exploratory design has been utilized to conduct the current study
The current study showed that most participant of study was mother this may be due to the mother traditionally take more physical and emotional responsibility of care, mother can tolerate her sons responsibility specially at the first year of age
Summary
Premature birth is often a traumatic event for mothers that could cause in traumare1ated symptoms, such as symptoms of avoidance, intrusion andhyper-arousa[1], negative states of mind and feelings, such as anxiety, hostility, inertia, depression, and bewilderment, and stress re1ated to the Neonata[1] Intensive Care Unit (NICU) perception, the baby’s conditions and the perception of an altered parental ro1e (1). The nurse shou1d provide emotiona support and health education for mothers to reduce Intensive symptoms of depression and stress This is the key nursing ro1e he1ping mothers to become adaptive with birth of premature infant by invo1ved in care for the baby, additiona1to educationa ro1e which change badbe1ieves aboutneonata intensive care unit(NICU)through giving information abouthospita1staying, status of the baby anddea1ing with the baby to give satisfaction about mothers ro1e,nursing staff given education and support by leadership to facilitate understanding and communication with mother and family (9). 1.1 Significance of the Study In Egypt, according to study conducted by(Eman,2011) (10) reported that 58% of premature babies died during their hospital stay, premature birth is high1y stressful experience for mothers this elevated Level of stress and depressive symptom for mothers, the researcher observed in Side Sa1em governmental general hospital at neonata intensive care unit premature infant sad mission rate (40%) from all neonatal admission rate. Level of total depression Low risk 70% Total Mean±SD
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