Abstract:
The purposes ot this research were to examine quality of health transition, to examine the relationships between subjective burden, knowledge of premature infant care, skill of premature infant care, social support, premature infant care planning and emotional and physical stress, and to determine the predictors of quality of health transition in premature delivery mothers. The subjects of this study were 120 premature delivery mothers who were selected through simple random sampling method. Data were collected by using demographic questionnaire, Subjective burden, Knowledge of premature infant care, Skill of premature infant care, Social support, Emotional and physical stress and Quality of health transition questionnaire. The instruments were content validated and tested for reliability. The Cronbach's alpha were between .70 and .89. The statistics used in this study were percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson's product moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. The major results of this study were as follow : 1. The mean score of quality of health transition in premature delivery mothers was high. ([Mean] = 71.10, S.D. = 9.87) 2. Social support, premature infant care planning, skill of premature infant care, knowledge of premature infant care related to quality of health transition in premature delivery mothers were positively significantly (r = .624, .590, .505 and .271, p < .05 at respectively) However, subjective burden and emotional and physical stress were negatively significantly associated with quality of health transition in premature delivery mothers. (r = -.483 and -.239, p < .05 at respectively). 3. Social support, premature infant care planning and subjective burden were found to contribute significantly to the prediction of quality of health transition in premature delivery mothers. Together, these predictors accounted for 57.8 percent of the variance (R[superscript 2] = .578, F = 25.79, P < .05). The equation derived from regression analysis showed as follows: Z[subscript Quality of health transition] = .339 (social support) + .264 (Premature infang care planning) - .238 (subjective burden) + .119 (skill of premature infant care) + .056 (knowledge of premature infant care) - .056 (emotional and physical stress)