Evaluatıon of Stress Levels in Both Parents of Newborns Hospıtalızed in the Neonatal Intensıve Care Unit

Abstract

was a positive correlation between the increase in the infant’s need for respiratory support and all the sub-units of the mother’s stress scale and the father’s stress scale ‘baby’s appearance and behavior’ sub-unit, and a positive correlation was found between vaginal delivery and maternal stress scale ‘images and sounds’ and ‘parental role in relation to the baby’ sub-unit. In the correlation analyzes performed with the baby’s apgar scores, it was determined that the apgar score showed a negative correlation between the maternal stress scale’s ‘images and sounds’ and ‘baby’s appearance and behavior’ subunits.