Fathers’ Support to Mothers of Medically Fragile Infants

摘要: Objective To examine mothers’ perceptions of support from fathers over the 1st year after birth a medically fragile infant. Design A descriptive, correlation design based on an ecologic systems view family. It was hypothesized that levels paternal would be influenced by factors within two subsystems: mother-father system (marital status) and child subsystem (health gender). Setting tertiary care children's hospital. Participants Sixty-four mothers term preterm infants, who were married or living with father. Main Outcome Measures The Stress Support Scale assessed maternal helpfulness satisfaction at enrollment, discharge, around 1 age. Results Mothers reported high help enrollment. Married did not differ unmarried in their but more satisfied support. female infants received than male this difference increased time. However, Neither number technologies nor birthweight related Conclusions Family significant health status JOGNN , 35, 46-55; 2006. DOI: 10.1111/J.1552-6909.2006.00015.x