Attitude and Awareness of Nurses About Rooming-in System.
10.4069/kjwhn.2010.16.2.137
- Author:
Eun Young KIM
1
;
Yun MI KIM
;
Ji Soo KIM
;
Dong Sook CHO
;
Eun Kyung KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Nursing, Dong-A University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Rooming-in care;
Attitude of health personnel;
Nurses
- MeSH:
Attitude of Health Personnel;
Female;
Humans;
Infant;
Mothers;
Parity;
Surveys and Questionnaires;
Rooming-in Care
- From:Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing
2010;16(2):137-146
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: This study was done to examine the attitude and awareness of nurses about rooming-in for new mothers and their infants. METHODS: Data were collected from 462 nurses from 40 hospitals from August 10 to September 20, 2008 using a questionnaire, and the collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA. RESULTS: The mean score for attitude and awareness of nurses about rooming-in was 3.02 (range=2.13~3.80), which indicates that the nurses had positive opinions of the system. The factors with the highest and lowest scores were awareness of a successful implementation method (mean=3.35) and awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of the system (mean=2.73), respectively. The attitude and awareness of nurses about rooming-in differed significantly with age, religion, education level, parity, type of hospital, hospital nurse staffing grade (bed-to-nurse ratio), and presence of a rooming-in system. CONCLUSION: This results of the study show that attitudes and awareness of nurses to rooming-in differed significantly according to personal factors (age, parity, religion, educational level) and work characteristics (hospital type, hospital nurse staffing grade, presence of rooming-in system). These findings can be used as basic data in determining optimal strategies for a system of rooming-in in the future.
