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KMID : 0606120020080010110
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Korean Journal of Child Health Nursing
2002 Volume.8 No. 1 p.110 ~ p.120
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Experience of mothers with very low birth weight infant
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Abstract
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A phenomenological study is conducted to investigate the experience of mothers with very low birth weight. Sample of 8 mothers participate. Seven theme clusters emerge when the formulated meanings were organized into categories. The participants are 8 mothers who gave birth in the general hospital located in Kyunggi-Province and still live there. The data are collected from the intensive interviews on the experience of mothers whose baby is very low birth weight infant. Data collection is through in depth_ yersonal interviews two or three times with each mother.
On the basis of the meanings of the experience of mothers with very low birth weight infant, the seven essential themes have been obtained
Theme 1: Being surprised and perplexed due to the unexpected sudden delivery
Theme 2 : Experiencing emotional pain such as anxiety, sorrow, fear, confusion and self-blaming caused by a small and feeble baby.
Theme 3: Pouring all their time and efforts into the baby under the acute tension
Theme 4: Undergoing intolerable difficulties in confronting reality
Theme 5: Raising the special infant into an normal one by themselves
Theme 6 Being on the vigilance for their a 5´even though they can be relieve :I Theme 7: Finding out a reward fer difficulties they have experienced
The results obtained in this study will enable us to comprehensively understand the experiencLi by mothers whose baby is very low birth, weight infant and furthermore to provide a new insight which helps baby.
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