Hope in Parents of Very-Low Birth Weight Infants and its Association with Parenting Stress and Quality of Life

Being a parent of a very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infant can be stressful. We aimed to describe parental hope 42months after the birth of a VLBW infant and determine whether there is an association between hope and parenting stress with quality of life (QoL), respectively. Fifty-nine parents of VLBW...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of pediatric nursing 2018-01, Vol.38, p.e53-e58
Hauptverfasser: Nordheim, Trond, Rustøen, Tone, Solevåg, Anne Lee, Småstuen, Milada Cvancarova, Nakstad, Britt
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Zusammenfassung:Being a parent of a very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infant can be stressful. We aimed to describe parental hope 42months after the birth of a VLBW infant and determine whether there is an association between hope and parenting stress with quality of life (QoL), respectively. Fifty-nine parents of VLBW infants completed questionnaires about hope, parenting stress and QoL. Pearson correlation coefficients (r) and linear regression models were used to examine the relationship between the selected variables. To compare groups, t-test was used and Cohen's d for effect size was calculated. Parents of VLBW infants were more hopeful than the general population (p
ISSN:0882-5963
1532-8449
DOI:10.1016/j.pedn.2017.10.006