Mothers' Strategies in Handling the Prematurely Born Infant: a Qualitative Study
Introduction: Family, especially mother, is faced with numerous challenges by experiencing a premature birth. Since knowing about mother‟s efforts regarding prematurely born infant helps us in our comprehensive understanding of the impact of this incident on the family system and its performance....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Caring Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.tbzmed.ac.ir/JCS/Manuscript/JCS-4-13.pdf |
| Summary: | Introduction: Family, especially mother, is faced with numerous challenges by
experiencing a premature birth. Since knowing about mother‟s efforts regarding
prematurely born infant helps us in our comprehensive understanding of the impact of
this incident on the family system and its performance. The present study was carried
out to explore the mothers' strategies regarding prematurely born infant.
Methods: In a conventional qualitative content analysis, data was collected through
purposive sampling by semi-structured deep interviews with 18 mothers who had
prematurely born infant during 2012-2013 in the teaching hospitals of the north and
northwest of Iran. All the interviews were recorded, typed, and finally analyzed.
Results: Data analysis resulted in the extraction of categories of "asking for help,
elevating capacity and reducing personal responsibilities and commitments". These
categories were revealed in mothers respectively by the different sub-categories of
"religious appeal and relying on beliefs, seeking information from the treatment and
caring team, participating in infant‟s care, companionship and support of family and
friends”, “focusing on positive thinking and imagination, patience and strength " and
"ignoring some routine affairs and reducing role-related activities and duties".
Conclusion: Considering the uniqueness of the mother's role in responding to the
needs of infants, healthcare system should consider mothers as real target in the
intervention strategies in order to promote health and quality of life, so maybe this
way, the burden of care and management of critical situations caused by a premature
birth on the mother can be reduced. |
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| ISSN: | 2251-9920 2251-9920 |