“Predictor of stress & coping strategies of mothers of neonate
admitted in NICU in a selected tertiary care hospital, Bhubaneswar.”
Abstract
Background : The parent stress is as ‘the
experience by a mother of unpleasant emotions, such as
tension, frustration, anxiety, anger, and depression, specially
when they see their child admitted in NICU of neonate as a
parent. Objectives :To assess the stress
level & coping strategies of mothers of neonates
admitted in N.I.C.U.To establish the correlation between
the stress & coping strategies among mother of
neonates. Materials & methods : A
descriptive design was used for this research which was done in selected
tertiary care hospital in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The sample consisted of
106 mothers whose baby admitted in NICU. The standardized tool and
including modified likert scale used for data collection. In this study
non-probability purposive sampling technique was used . After collection
of the data, the selected samples was analysed by using Karl Pearson’s
Coefficient of Correlation and chi-square test. and SPSS software
version 20 and Microsoft Excel, 2007 used for statistical analysis .
Results : After statistical analysis the
result was found that majority (86.8 %) mother comes under severe
stress and (13.2 %) of mothers comes under moderate stress. In case of
coping strategies maximum mothers 96(90.6 %) were undergone moderate
coping strategies to reduce the stress, and only few mothers 10 (9.4%)
with poor coping strategy & did not find any relationship between the
stress level & coping strategies ( r = 0.065, P=0.618). Here, the null
hypothesis was rejected. The final table revealed that there is negative
significant association between the stress level of mothers & socio
demographic variables such as mothers age, Education qualification,
family Income per month, mode of delivery, living area, Number of
Children, and treatment pattern except four variables and these are
education (p < 0.005), Income (p < 0.33) , mode of
delivery ( p < 0.001) & family type (p < 0.001)
etc.