Correlation study on disease uncertainty and postpartum depression among fathers whose preterm infants hospitalized in NICU
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2016.25.020
- VernacularTitle:NICU早产儿父亲疾病不确定感与产后抑郁的相关性研究
- Author:
Yanyan LU
1
;
Jing ZHANG
;
Li PU
;
Yunfeng CONG
Author Information
1. 130000 长春，吉林大学第一医院妇科
- Keywords:
Infants,premature;
Father;
Disease uncertainty;
Depression;
Postpartum
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2016;22(25):3623-3625,3626
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate disease uncertainty and postpartum depression status for fathers of preterm infants and explore the relationship between them. Methods A total of 102 fathers of preterm infants were selected from April to December 2015 in our hospital as research object. We used Chinese version of parent′s parception uncertainty scale-family(PPUS-FM) and Edinburgh postnatal depression scale (EPDS) to survey those fathers by questionnaire and analyzed their disease uncertainty and postpartum depression by Spearman correlation analysis.Results The PPUS-FM level of preterm infants′ fathers was medium. The total score of PPUS-FM was (93.85±11.11);the total score of depression was (11.04±2.99), while 58 fathers (56.86%) felt depression. The score of postnatal depression was positively correlated with the total score of disease uncertainty ( r=0. 519, P<0.01) , with the uncertain of illness ( r=0.460,P<0.01) , with complexity ( r=0.475,P<0.01) , with incoherence (r=0. 351,P<0.01), and with unpredictability (r=0.385,P<0.01).Conclusions Fathers of preterm infants show a high level disease uncertainty and depression, and there is a positive correlation between them. Nurses should take effective measures to improve the disease uncertainty and depression states for fathers, and to improve the nursing quality.
