Husband’s Anxiety And Cooping Level In Dealing A Sectiony Caesarian And Normal Wife Delivery Process At Home ILL Mother And Child Natama High Click

Abstract

Anxiety is an emotional response to judgment that describes a state of confusion, worry about something that will happen with no apparent cause. When anxiety occurs, individuals will adopt certain techniques as coping with the events they are experiencing. The design of this study is a comparative design which aims to analyze the level of anxiety and coping of the husband in dealing with the process of giving birth to his wife by caesarean section and normal. This research was conducted by RSIA Natama Tebing Tinggi from March to May 2014, with the number of samples studied was 30 people using purposive sampling technique. Data was collected using a questionnaire, which consists of 3 parts, namely demographic data, data on the husband's level of anxiety facing childbirth and data on the husband's coping with the wife's delivery. The results showed that the average level of anxiety of the husband facing the wife's delivery by caesarean section was 40.33 while the husband who faced the wife's delivery normally was 35.66 and the average coping rate of the husband who faced the wife's delivery by caesarean section was 12.46 while the average husband's coping with his wife's normal delivery is 13.53. The results of data analysis in this study indicate that there are differences in the husband's level of anxiety in dealing with the wife's delivery by caesarean section and normal and there is no difference in the husband's coping in dealing with the wife's delivery by caesarean section and normal.