Identifying environmental stressors affecting parents with an infant in the Nicu

To discuss sources of stress for parents, a convenience sample of 47 parents of infants admitted to a NICU was obtained to complete questionnaires pertaining to different possible sources of stress. The questionnaires included the Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Parent/Child Uncertainty in Illness Scale; The parents of preterm infants had higher mean scores for each of the PSS:NICU sub-scales than parents of full-term NICU infants with the difference significant for the sub-scale Role Alteration; The Parent/Child Uncertainty in Illness Scale was utilized in conjunction with the PSS:NICU to further validate the later instrument. The PCUS closely correlated with the PSS:NICU sub-scale of Staff Relations. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.).

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Nursing

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1989

Author dc:creator

• Mattson, Donna Gaynelle

Contributors dc:contributor

• Margaret Louis

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/68

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1067