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Supporting fathers of premature infants hospitalized in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
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Zahra Shahkolahi   , Zahra Abdeyazdan , Tayebe Mehrabi , Mahnoosh Hajiheidari |
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| Aims: Prematurely birth of the infant and his/her hospitalization in NICU is something really unexpected for the parents. In most of the cases fathers are the first visitors of the infant in NICU and they are counted as the key person in supporting mother and infant. Lack of supporting father and shortage of his awareness increase his stress in this crisis and have some inappropriate short-term and long-term outcomes. The aim of this study was “assessing the effect of a designed program about the intervention of family support on the stress of the fathers of premature infants hospitalized in NICU”. Methods: In a two-group semi-experimental study which was done in 2013, fathers of fifty premature infants hospitalized in NICU of Shahid Beheshti hospital in Isfahan were chosen through convenient sampling and were divided into two control and experimental group. Family supporting program was a two-phase program. The first phase included two informational and one observational sections and the second group included supporting section. Parental stress measurement questionnaire in both of the groups was completed by the infant’s father in two before and after time of intervention. For analyzing information SPSS18 software and descriptive and inferential tests were used. Results: In the experimental group there was significant difference in the mean of scores before and after intervention in two subscales of “appearance and behavior of the infant and special treatments” and “the relationship of the parents with the infant and acceptance of parental roles” and the mean of total score, while this difference was not significant in control group in none of subscales of parental stress and total score. Before intervention, there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of the mean score of parental stress in three subscales of parental stress and total score but after intervention in experimental group, the difference of the mean of the parental stress scores in two subscales of infant’s appearance and behavior and special treatments and the relationship of the parents with the infant and acceptance of parental roles and total score was significantly less than control group. Conclusions: Emotional-informational support program could decrease stress level of the fathers of premature infants hospitalized in NICU, so appropriate effort and policies can be valuable in paying more attention to the father and his partnership. |
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Received: 2019/03/3 | Published: 2014/04/15
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