Child Health Nursing Research
- Volume 12 Issue 1
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- Pages.104-113
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- 2006
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- 2287-9110(pISSN)
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- 2287-9129(eISSN)
Development and Test of Effectiveness of a Prenatal Parental Role Education Program
산전 어머니역할교육 프로그램 개발과 그 효과
- Kim, Tae-Im (Department of Nursing, School of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon University)
- 김태임 (대전대학교 한의과대학 간호학과)
- Published : 2006.01.01
Abstract
Purpose: This study was conducted to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a prenatal parental role education program. Methods: The participants were healthy primiparous women and their healthy newborn babies. 57 mother-infant diads(27 in the intervention group, 30 in the control group). For the intervention group, an additional 4 prenatal parental role education programs and 2 postnatal telephone calls(1st & 3rd week after birth) were provided. Data were analyzed by frequency, chi-square test, t-test and repeated measures ANOVA using SPSS PC+ 10.0 program. Results: Significant differences were found in self-confidence in maternal role performance, mother-infant interaction and infant physical growth between the two groups. This result indicate that the intervention program was effective in improving self-confidence in maternal role performance, mother-infant interaction and in facilitating infant physical growth. Conclusions: The prenatal parental role education program developed by the author was a very effective program in promoting maternal self-confidence, mother-infant interaction, and fostering infant's physical growth at 4 weeks after infant's birth.
Keywords
- Prenatal maternal role education;
- Maternal self-confidence;
- Mother-infant interaction;
- Infant's physical growth