Perception of Stress and Styles of Coping with It in Parents Giving Kangaroo Mother Care to Their Children during Hospitalization in NICU

Barbara Zych, Witold Błaż, Ewa Dmoch-Gajzlerska, Katarzyna Kanadys, Anna Lewandowska and Małgorzata Nagórska
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Barbara Zych: Institute of Health Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, 35-310 Rzeszow, Poland
Witold Błaż: Institute of Medical Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, 35-310 Rzeszow, Poland
Ewa Dmoch-Gajzlerska: Department of Didactics of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-091 Warsaw, Poland
Katarzyna Kanadys: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing, Medical University of Lublin, 20-093 Lublin, Poland
Anna Lewandowska: Institute of Healthcare, State School of Technology and Economics, Jaroslaw, 37-500 Jaroslaw, Poland
Małgorzata Nagórska: Institute of Medical Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, 35-310 Rzeszow, Poland

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 23, 1-14

Abstract: The experience of hospitalization of a newborn in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) may become distressing both for the baby and parent. The study aimed to assess the degree of parental stress and coping strategies in parents giving KMC to their babies hospitalized in NICU compared to the control group parents not giving KMC. The prospective observational study enrolled a cohort of 337 parents of premature babies hospitalized in NICU in 2016 in Eastern Poland. The Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations were used. The level of stress in parents giving KMC was defined as low or moderate. Analysis confirmed its greater presence in the group of parents initiating KMC late (2–3 weeks) compared to those starting this initiative in week 1 of a child’s life. An additional predictor of a higher level of stress in parents initiating KMC “late” was the hospital environment of a premature baby. Task oriented coping was the most common coping strategy in the study group. KMC and direct skin-to-skin contact of the parent with the baby was associated with a higher level of parental stress only initially and decreased with time and KMC frequency.

Keywords: intensive care units; Kangaroo-Mother Care Method; neonatal; parents; stress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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