Gonca Özyurt1, Ayhan Özyurt2, Taylan Ozturk3, Aylin Yaman4, A Tulin Berk4. 1. a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit , Nevsehir State Hospital , Nevsehir , Turkey. 2. b Ophthalmology Unit , Nevşehir State Hospital , Nevsehir , Turkey. 3. c Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology , Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine , Izmir , Turkey. 4. d Ophthalmology, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Unit, Department of Ophthalmology , Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine , Izmir , Turkey.
Abstract
PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to evaluate the emotional stress and its effects on parental self-efficacy and mother-infant attachment in mothers whose babies were diagnosed with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). METHODS: Study sample was consisted of voluntarily participating 82 mothers whose babies were first diagnosed with ROP, 83 mothers of preterm babies without ROP, and 85 mothers of term babies admitting for their routine visits. Sociodemographic data form maternal attachment scale, state-trait anxiety inventory, Edinburgh postnatal depression scale, and parental self-efficacy scale were applied to study participants, and the overall results of three groups were statistically compared. RESULTS: The sociodemographic features of three study groups were similar. Statistical significant differences were found in depression and state anxiety levels among study groups, while maternal attachment scale and trait anxiety level scores and parental self-efficacy scale total score were similar in study groups. Maternal depression and state-anxiety levels were tend to be higher in mother of children diagnosed with ROP and prematurity; however, there were no statistically significant differences between levels of mothers' of premature children with or without ROP. CONCLUSION: This is the first study in literature assessing the additional effect of ROP on the anxiety and depression levels of recent mothers, as well as mother-infant attachment and parental self-efficacy. Supporting of mothers having an infant with diagnosed ROP is crucial because of feeling themselves inefficient and responsible for all interventions applied to their babies.
PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to evaluate the emotional stress and its effects on parental self-efficacy and mother-infant attachment in mothers whose babies were diagnosed with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). METHODS: Study sample was consisted of voluntarily participating 82 mothers whose babies were first diagnosed with ROP, 83 mothers of preterm babies without ROP, and 85 mothers of term babies admitting for their routine visits. Sociodemographic data form maternal attachment scale, state-trait anxiety inventory, Edinburgh postnatal depression scale, and parental self-efficacy scale were applied to study participants, and the overall results of three groups were statistically compared. RESULTS: The sociodemographic features of three study groups were similar. Statistical significant differences were found in depression and state anxiety levels among study groups, while maternal attachment scale and trait anxiety level scores and parental self-efficacy scale total score were similar in study groups. Maternal depression and state-anxiety levels were tend to be higher in mother of children diagnosed with ROP and prematurity; however, there were no statistically significant differences between levels of mothers' of premature children with or without ROP. CONCLUSION: This is the first study in literature assessing the additional effect of ROP on the anxiety and depression levels of recent mothers, as well as mother-infant attachment and parental self-efficacy. Supporting of mothers having an infant with diagnosed ROP is crucial because of feeling themselves inefficient and responsible for all interventions applied to their babies.
Authors: Bala Vidyadhar S Malladi; Gowri K Iyer; G V S Murthy; Clare Gilbert; Rajan Shukla; Anirudh G Gudlavalleti; Pavani Yamarthi; Sridivya Mukpalkar Journal: Indian J Ophthalmol Date: 2020-02 Impact factor: 1.848