저체중출생아 어머니와 정상신생아 어머니의 정서와 지지 비교 및 보건소 저체중출생아 가정방문간호의 효과에 대한 연구 = Study on the Comparison of Emotion between the Mothers with Low-birth Weights and Normal Infants and the Effect of Home Visiting for the Low-birth Weights

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study was conducted to compare the emotional state between the mothers with low-birth-weights and mothers with normal infants, and to analyze the effects of home visiting for the low-birth-weights in one city. Data were collected from 51 mothers with low-birth-weights and 90 mothers with normal infants to compare emotional state, and from 26 mothers with low-birth weights to evaluate the effect of home visiting care. Summaries of results were as follows; 1. In mothers with low-birth-weights, social support form others was significantly lower than those of mothers with normal infants. Although the differences were not significant, mothers with low-birth-weights have more stress and child rearing burden, and less maternal self-esteem than those of mothers with normal infants. 2. Mothers with low-birth-weights, the more stress they had, the more child rearing burden, postpartum depression, and the less husbands` support they felt. When they had lower maternal self-esteem and lower husbands` support, child rearing burden was higher. Also there was significant negative correlation between maternal self-esteem and postpartum depression. 3. In mothers with low-birth-weights, the score of post-intervention stress, care-giving burden, and postpartum depression were somewhat decreased, and maternal self-esteem was increased than pre-intervention data, although they were not statistically significant. 4. Mothers` satisfaction on the home-visiting care was considered to be high. In summary, mothers with low-birth-weights had lower social support even though they experienced more stress than mothers with normal infants. Therefore, public health nurse in community should pay more attention to them. It proved home visiting care for low-birth weights` was satisfied by mothers. This study was meaningful that we could provide basic data on the emotion of mothers with low-birth-weight, and suggest the possible efficiency of home visiting care for low-birth-weight provided by public health nurses.