Perceived stress for parents of critically ill newborns during hospitalization
Keywords:
Stress, Parents, Critical illness, NewbornAbstract
Introduction: Treatment protocols for family includes identifying stress levels of parents of newborns in critical condition in hospital, enabling care planning, increasing the degree of security and the perceived benefit in improving infant.
Objective: To describe the level of perceived stress for parents of critically ill neonates during hospitalization in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Methodology: descriptive correlational study in a NICU parents about their perceptions of interpersonal stress and superpersonal interviewed during hospitalization with “Parenting Stressors Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit”, developed and validated by Dr. Miles, statistical analysis was conducted in SPSS v.8.
Results: The level of stress perceived by parents was referred on five levels: Not stressful 24 %, Little bit stressful 36%, Moderately stressful 25 %, Very stressful 10 %, and Extremely stressful 5 %. The average was little stressful interpersonal stress with superpersonal 2.04 and the stress was moderately stressful to 2.51. The stress factor was highest scoring behavior and communication.
Conclusions: We identified that there is a relationship between interpersonal and extra-personal factors with the level of stress perceived by parents during hospitalization of the newborn in critical condition.
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