Parental role conflict: the nursing diagnosis in mothers of hospitalized newborns

• Autor(a) principal: Carmona, Elenice Valentim [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Vale, Ianê Nogueira do, Ohara, Conceicao Vieira da Silva [UNIFESP], Abrão, Ana Cristina Freitas de Vilhena [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-11692013000200014; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/7685
• topic: Mother-Child Relations; Mothers; Infant, Newborn; Nursing Diagnosis; Neonatal Nursing; Relações Mãe-Filho; Mães; Recém-Nascido; Diagnóstico de Enfermagem; Enfermagem Neonatal

OBJECTIVE: To verify if mothers of newborns hospitalized recognize the defining characteristics of parental role conflict as representative of that experience. METHODS: A cross-sectional and descriptive study, developed in a neonatal unit of a public teaching hospital in the state of São Paulo. The sample consisted of 100 women who assigned scores of 1 to 5 to the defining characteristics of the diagnosis, where 1 meant not at all characteristic and 5 meant completely characteristic of what I am experiencing. RESULT: Of the total sample, 96 women self-identified with the diagnosis. The most prevalent defining characteristics were: anxiety, mother expresses concern(s) in relation to changes in maternal role; verbalizes feelings of frustration, reports concern about family and fear. Women who were with their children less often during hospitalization had a higher number of defining characteristics. CONCLUSION: There was a high prevalence of the defining characteristics of the studied diagnosis, suggesting the relevance of the topic and the need for further studies to be developed in the neonatal unit.