Stress and Coping of Adolescent Mothers in First Childbirth

Abstract

Background: The impacts of pregnancy and maternal faced by adolescents can Bevery significant because they are more likely to have various medical and obstetric complications. Apart from these complications, psychosocial impacts of teenage pregnancy are noteworthy. The adolescent mothers are at risk of stress depression, school dropout, poor education attainment, limited job opportunities, addition problem. In order to cope with the psychosocial impacts, some of the mmay resort to pregnancy. If pregnant women have aprocess of coping Correct and appropriate stress Will help reduce problemsin teenage mothers
Objective: This research aimed to study stress and coping in adolescent mothers of first childbirth. The relation between them aspect.
Methods: Sample was 117 normal adolescent mothers after birth at puerperium Period ward.The research tools used in this study was a questionnaire. The questionnaire were 2 parts 1) Stress in adolescent mothers and 2) Coping in adolescent mothers.
Results: The results of this study revealed that overall stress of adolescent Mothers was at moderate level ( =2.7, SD.=0.4). The coping behaviors with the stress of the adolescent mothers was at moderate level ( =2.9,SD.=0.4). The relationship between the stress level sand coping with the stress was positively correlated with astatistical significance (r=0.3, p<0.01). Overall, the stress level was positively correlated with the problem-focused and emotion-coping with a statistical significance (r= 0.4, p <0.01, r=0.2, p <0.01 respectively).
Conclusion: The findings from this study suggested that the nurses should provide the activity for her husband and family helpingtogether to mothers.
Keywords: Stress and Coping, adolescent mothers