UTVÁRENÍ VZTAHU RODICÛ K PREDCASNÉ NAROZENYM DETEM

Parents of premature born children show - in comparison with parents whose child was bom in time limit - the higher level of stress, higher need for help during the first year after the birth, lower adaptation ability, high need for information, and also manifestations of post-traumatic stress disease can be identified in them. The way the parents cope with the trauma of premature birth can influence the transition to parenthood, taking over the parent competencies, prospering of the child, and the relation to child itself. The study focuses on factors that can influence the formation of parental relation to the child and thus also the looking for the possible ways of prevention of potential risks. Except of mothers of premature born children it focuses also on fathers whom is devoted a separated part of the study. It shows besides other things that the medical personnel play an important role in forming the relation to the child. The better awareness of parents' experiencing in this stressing period could lead to more sensitive approach to parents, saturation of their needs and thus also prevention of some difficulties resulting in the delay of commencement of parental identity and disturbed relation to the child. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]