Prematurity and mother stress
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Preterm under 37 weeks of gestational age; preterm without malformation; teenager mother following with law responsable; literacy mother.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Preterm has left for adoption; mothers who have related psychiatric problems; mothers who autorelate that are in continuous use of controlled drugs (anxiety or depression); mothers with medical complications or who have gone to death during the study; illiterate mothers; teenagers mothers without law companion; mothers who did not attend the consultations on the follow-up clinic between the 3rd and 6th month after discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Reduction of maternal stress level between the 3rd and 6th month after discharge from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit measured by the Parental Stress scales (measured in hospitalization), in which mothers must submit scores between 3 and 4 levels, that is considered moderate and high level of stress. After discharge the mother stress will be measured by the Parental Stress Index scale, during the preterm apointment in the follow up clinic, this scale is expected to the mothers will have lower scores than the 90th percentile, which indicates a lower level of stress. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Increase the mother's knowledge about caring for preterm infants that will be measured by the validated questionnaire of maternal knowledge analysis, pre and post-test. This questionnaire is expected to mothers, in the intervention, group show higher scores in the post-test than the mothers in the control group | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
universidade estadual do oeste do parana - unioeste