Thitima Lueprasert. The relationships between personal factors, self-esteem, social support and stress during antepartum hospitalization in high-risk pregnant women . Master's Degree(Maternity and Newborn Nursing). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2003.
The relationships between personal factors, self-esteem, social support and stress during antepartum hospitalization in high-risk pregnant women
Abstract:
Stress during antepartum hospitalization in high-risk pregnant women is
represented in the physiological adaptive mode. Its outcome depends on contextual
stimuli. This descriptive research was guided by the Roy Adaptation Model and
aimed to study stress during antepartum hospitalization in high-risk pregnant
women, and investigate factors that might be potential contextual stimuli, i.e.
personal factors (maternal age, family income, education, experience of perinatal
or child loss and perception of disease severity), self-esteem and social support,
including their predictability for stress during antepartum hospitalization in highrisk
pregnant women. Purposive sampling was used to select 120 high-risk
pregnant women who were admitted to the High-risk Ward at Ramathibodi
Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand from June to August 2000. Self-reported
questionnaires were used to collect data, namely the Demographic Data Form,
Rosenberg’s Self-esteem Scale (Supannee Soomlek, B.E.2538), Social Support
Questionnaire (Pannee Chunpradub, B.E.2538), Antepartum Hospital Stressors
Inventory (Duanghathai Songtrirat, B.E.2540). All data were analysed using
SPSS/FW version 10.0.
The results revealed that the subjects had rather high scores for selfesteem
(M = 31.39, S.D. = 5.57), a rather high score of social support (M = 87.97,
S.D. = 13.82), and a moderate score for stress (M = 53.97, S.D. = 27.97).
Perception of disease severity, social support and maternal age were three factors
that correlated with stress during antepartum hospitalization in high-risk pregnant
women (r = .328, -.319, -.246, p < .01, respectively). Such factors could explain
25.7% of variance in stress in high-risk pregnant women during antepartum
hospitalization (p < .001).
According to the results, the researcher suggests that nursing
intervention to decrease stress should focus on investigating the perception of
disease severity, social support and maternal age of hospitalized high-risk pregnant
women.