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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
Conference Proceedings
The data where analysed through the technique of the content
analysis in the word processor Microsoft Word 2000. The analysis
took place through one process of categorization after the
examination of all obtained from the meaning of the interviews
transcription. We constructed one codification tree, constituted by
the great emergent categories of the carried out analysis.
Conclusions
From the main conclusions we mention: In the feelings/emotions
category we determined that in 26 subcategories, fear was the
most present feeling in mothers with premature children, while the
children were still in hospital, in the other hand, satisfaction and
hope were the most frequent feelings after the hospital discharge
of their children. In the adaptation category we verified that
acceptation is the most present subcategory present in the
mother, with a variable period of time, depending on her personality
and other circumstances that involved the child’s birth. In the
category/ organically alterations, we point out the pain was
experienced by the majority of mothers, in the pre and pos delivery
discomfort. In the auto knowledge category, the most referred
category was learning of life importance. In the beliefs
category most referred experience was the religious experience,
which was felt by many mothers in any point of their lives. In the
difficulty category, many mothers pointed out as their bigger
difficulty the conciliation between motherhood and
professional activity. The family interaction category,
presented has most referred experience support, with a special
mention to families and health institutions support. To conclude we
referrer the bondage category, in this category mother/child
bond has a primordial importance with nine enumerations units.
The results of this study allowed us to know and understand the
perception that mothers have when are confronted with the
prematurity of their children. Each child is born with its proper
abilities, potentially incalculable, that need to be discovered and
understood, from a new model of intervention applicable either in
the primary care or in the day to day clinical practice. Not
supporting the process of familiar genesis it is the same as to give a
hand to stress and to the inefficacy of strategies. Removing the aid
to the family and the baby, mainly when they live an experience of
anguish and fear with the birth of a different child, we are failing in
the discovery of the abilities and potential capacities of the díade
baby/family.
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