PARENTING STRESS AND ITS FACTORS AMONG MOTHERS OF INFANTS WITH PNEUMONIA

Abstract

In China, pneumonia has always been in the first place in the prevalence and mortality of children. During hospitalization, the mother was mainly accompanied, It may cause psychological problems for the mother, such as guilt, self-blame. This study aimed to describe parenting stress among mothers of infant with pneumonia and to examine the predictive relationship between health literacy, self-efficacy, social support, anxiety, severity of illness and parenting stress among mothers of infants with pneumonia.

Simple random sampling technique was applied to recruit 200 participants who take care of children with pneumonia, hospitalized at the first time from the pediatric department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University in Wenzhou, China. Research instruments included demographic record form, Chinese Parental Health Literacy Questionnaire, Tool of Parenting Self-efficacy, social support revalued scale, Self-rating Anxiety Scale, The Parenting Stress Index-Short-15 Form. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis.

The results of this study showed that the mean score of parenting stress was 34.94 (SD = 8.81). Anxiety (β = .284, p < .001), parental health literacy (β = -.192, p < .05), and social support (β = -.175, p < .05). together significantly explained 18.8% of variance in parenting stress (F(5,194) = 10.207, p <.05). The findings can provide a theoretical basis for reducing parenting stress among mothers having infants with pneumonia.

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