Judgment related to the Interaction Mother with Nurse in Caring for preterm infants

Abstract

Treatment requires that preterm infants admitted to the NICU infants. Isolation and strict observation for in the NICU is a source of considerable stress for parents, especially mothers. Stress experienced by the mother will lead to inability in making decisions that affect the interaction with nurses. Judgment made mothers of preterm infants is accept or reject the state of her baby. This attitude will affect the interaction when dealing with nurse. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between judgment and interaction mother in caring for preterm infants. Analytic observational study on mothers of preterm infants in several hospitals in the city and Mojokerto in August until October 2014. The study sample of 56 samples by consecutive sampling. The research variables are Judgment and interactions. The research instrument used questionnaires to measure judgment and checklists to measure interactions. Data is presented in a frequency distribution table and tested with Pearson correlation to analyze the relationship between judgment and interaction mother. The result showed the highest maternal judgment in the low category (69.65%) and maternal interactions are mostly in the low category is 64.3%. Pearson correlation test showed p = 0.000. There is a relationship between judgment and interaction. The higher decision the higher interaction. Mothers aware of the state of their babies requiring intensive care will be able to take the right decision. The right decision will cause the interaction will take place with a good mother because the mother realized the importance of information and health education are sufficient to implement ways of treatment of preterm infants after discharge from the hospital.