Stress in Parents of Newborns in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

• Autor(a) principal: Kegler,Jaquiele Jaciara
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Neves,Eliane Tatsch, Silva,Augusto Maciel da, Jantsch,Leonardo Bigolin, Bertoldo,Caren da Silva, Silva,Júlia Heinz da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Escola Anna Nery
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-81452019000100211
• topic: Stress, Psychological; Parents; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; Neonatal Nursing

Abstract Objective: To identify the level of stress and the most stressful situations for the parents of newborns hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Methods: A descriptive study, with a quantitative approach, performed with parents of newborns admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. For the data collection, the Brazilian version of the Parental Stress Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PSS: NICU) was used. The analysis was performed using descriptive statistics. Results: The change in the role of mother/father was the subscale in which the highest level of stress was obtained (mean=3.49) and the items considered more stressful in this subscale were "Separated from my baby" (mean=4.00) and "Feeling helpless and unable to protect my baby from pain and painful procedures" (mean=3.78). Conclusion: Hospitalization of a child in a neonatal unit is a stressful experience for parents and there are situations that trigger higher levels of stress.