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Nursing Education 2018 Journal of Nursing and Health Studies
ISSN: 2574-2825 Page 27
April 23-25, 2018
Rome, Italy
27th Edition of World Congress on
Nursing Education &
Research
Mother’s perception of her baby is influenced by; reactions,
previousexperience,age,intellectualabilities,personaland
cultural experiences, lack of social support, lack of information
about support resources, disappointment after birth, mature/
premature birth of baby. Pediatric nurses should help to
initiate and maintain love formation in prenatal, postnatal, and
postnatal periods with family and infant. Adoption of mother’s
pregnancy after pregnancy should help mother and baby in the
early postnatal period to help the mother to perceive herself
and her baby positively. This study aimed to determine how
mothers with term and preterm babies perceive their new born
babies. The study was conducted on term and preterm infant
mothers who gave birth in the training and research hospital.
No sampling has been applied in this comparative descriptive
research method, term baby mothers (N=60) with at least
primary school graduation who accepted to participate in the
study between January 2015-December 2017, who gave their
first birth and had no physical and psychological problems,
and 35th-37th week born preterm infant mothers (N=60) have
constituted the sampling. A questionnaire and a newborn
perception scale were used as a data collection tool. The
questionnaires were developed by the researcher, including
demographic characteristics of the mother and introductory
information about postnatal characteristics. The obtained data
were evaluated using the significance test for the difference
between two means of number and percentage and chi-square.
It was determined that premature born babies were perceived
as negative while term births were perceived positive by their
mothers and this difference was found to be statistically
significant (p=0.00). Furthermore, it was detected that the
descriptive characteristics of term and preterm infant mothers
did not influence the perception of their infants (p>0.05). The
fact that preterm infant mothers were not informed about
prenatal babysitting, and if additionally the baby was not born
in the desired gender, has increased their negative perception
of babies. It has been recommended to support the behavior
of mothers to perceive their baby positively, especially the
early initiation of the relationships of preterm infants with their
mothers.
Biography
Selen Özakar Akça received her PhD degree from Istanbul University Insti-
tute of Health Science with the thesis entitled “Risk-taking behaviours of
adolescents and the effect of nursing practice on substance abuse in accor-
dance with model of change in adolescents” in 2013. She has been working
in Hitit University Health School since 2008.
Mother’s perception of their term and preterm babies
Selen Özakar Akça
Hitit University Health School, Corum, Turkey
Selen Özakar Akça, J Nurs Health Stud 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C1-002