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School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
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The relation/experiences between mother and premature
children, during their first year.
Name: Ana Maria Costa Jardim de Azevedo Jardim
Adress: Escola Superior de Enfermagem da Madeira – University of
Madeira, Campus Universitário da Penteada 9000 – 380 Funchal –
Portugal
Qualifications: Master Degree, Pediatric Nurse,
Ph: + 351 962824053 Fax: +351 705038
E-mail: ajardim@uma.pt
Background and context
The confrontation with the prematurity of a child demands, always,
a period of adaptation that must be helped and guided, in the scope
of promoting the best conditions to improve the capacity of
communication between mother and child. This support will gain
greater success if the health professionals know and understand, in
a particular way, the maternal experiences related to the
prematurity of the children.
Aim of the study
Being aware of this idea, we planned as main objective of our study,
to know the maternal experiences with premature children during
the first year of life, whose contribute will enrich the quality of our
professional activity. The main purposes of this study follow:
� To program preventive strategies and of precocious
intervention, adjusted to each premature child/mother
� To contribute for the enrichment of the field of scientific
knowledge in the area of taking care of the premature
child/mother.
� To contribute for the personalized development of the quality
of the health services given to the premature child and to his
mother.
Methodology
This study has a qualitative paradigm and an exploratory and
descriptive approach, it has the foremost purpose of knowing the
relation/experiences between mother and premature children,
during their first year. Ten mothers with premature children born in
2001 in the “Região Autonoma da Madeira” volunteered to this
study. These children are attended in the Children Development
Center Dr. Óscar de Brito. The data were obtained threw semi
structured interviews, that were taped and assisted with
information’s analysis.
Analysis
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