Social Support, Uncertainty, and Coping Among Women with Preterm Labor
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Social support, uncertainty, coping, women with preterm laborAbstract
Pregnant women with preterm labor will confront several types of stress. Helping them to cope with this stress is an important role of the nurse-midwife. The purpose of this descriptive correlational research study was to explore the relationships among social support, uncertainty, and coping among women with preterm labor. The participants were 85 pregnant women with preterm labor, chosen through the inclusion criteria, who admitted to the labor room of Sakonnakhon Hospital between July and December 2017. The research tools were the Uncertainty in Situation Questionnaire, based on the Uncertainty in Illness concept by Mishel (1997) and the Thai version by Phojanart (2013), the Social Support Questionnaire, and the Coping for at Risk Pregnant Women Questionnaire as developed by Chunpradub (1995). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient.
The results of the study were as follows:
- Participants demonstrated overall coping at a high level (= 92.56, S.D. = 7.89)
- Social support was positively statistically significant correlated with coping among women with preterm labor (r = .58, p < .01).
- Uncertainty in situations was negatively statistically significant correlated with coping among women with preterm labor (r = -.54, p < .01).
The findings from this study can be used as baseline data for planning effective nursing care to promote coping among pregnant women with preterm labor.
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