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KMID : 0915920060090020091
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Korean Parent-Child Health Journal
2006 Volume.9 No. 2 p.91 ~ p.100
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The Relationship of Stress and Infant Perception of Mothers in Postpartum Period
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Lee Young-Eun
Kang Yang-Hee
Park Hae-Sun
Kang In-Sun
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was done to investigate into the relationship between mother’s stress in postpartum period and perception of infant in order to provide basic data for developing nursing intervention program.
Methods: The data were collected from September 1, 2004 to October 15, from one women’s hospital and three facilities for taking care of women’s health after delivery located in B metropolitan city, and analyzed by SPSS/12.0 program frequency, percentage rate, mean, standard deviation, average, the maximum value, the minimum value and Person’s correlation coefficient.
Results: 1. The degree of stress of subjects was 75.6±38.3(0-376) in average, and .8± .4(0-4) of average point, and the degree of perception of infant was -5.8±5.6(15-75) in average and - .4± .4(1-5) of average point. The relationship of degrees between the stress of subject and conception of infants that showed weak reverse relation(r= .210, p= .030). That is, the more the stress of subject was high, the more the perception of infant is relatively indefinite.
Conclusion: As a result, The stress of mother in postpartum period was a level to be in need of management and the perception of infant was slightly negative. thus, the introduction of nursing assistance program is necessary to relive
the stress of mother in postpartum period to promote the affirmative perception of infant.
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KEYWORD
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Mothers in postpartum period, Stress, Perception of infant
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