Investigation of Anxiety and Its Influencing Factors in Postpartum Nurses Returning to Work from Giving Birth to a Second Child

Abstract

<i>Objective:</i> We attempt to investigate the anxiety and its influencing factors in postpartum nurses returning to work from second childbirth so as to provide reference basis for making intervening measures to promote physical and psychological health of the postpartum nurses. <i>Methods:</i> We conducted a network questionnaire survey. Firstly, convenience sampling was used to select postpartum nurses who return to work from giving birth to a second child in public hospitals affiliated to Jiangmen City from September 1^st 2018 to December 31^st 2018. Then we adopted Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) to conduct a cross-sectional study of the anxiety of postpartum nurses returning to work from giving birth to a second child. We later used Logistics regression analysis to analyze the influencing factors of anxiety of the postpartum nurses. <i>Results:</i> the average score of 702 postpartum nurses on anxiety was (48.64±11.57), and the incidence of anxiety was 42.1%, among which the incidence of mild anxiety was 25.7%, moderate anxiety was 11% and severe anxiety was 5.4%. The Logistics regression analysis showed that duty, coping style, family function and social support were the factors that influenced anxiety of the postpartum nurses (R²=59.41%). <i>Conclusions:</i> The situation of anxiety of postpartum nurses returning to work after giving birth to a second child is severe, and family function is a major influencing factor of their anxiety. Nursing managers can help reduce the influence of family function on anxiety of postpartum nurses through providing psychological adjustment for them, help for their family and support for their work.