ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Areerat Naewchalee, Srisamorn Phumonsakul, Orapin Chareonpol.

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: The Predictability of Personal Factors, Social Support, and Uncertainty on Stress and Coping Behavior of First-time Fathers Dealing with Spouse's High Risk Pregnancy.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Ramathibodi Nursing Journal. Vol. 14, No. 2, May-August 2008, page 257.

รายละเอียด / Details:

The present research was a descriptive study which aimed at investigating the predictability of personal factors, social support, and uncertainty on stress and coping behavior of first-time fathers dealing with spouse's high-risk pregnancy. The Stress, appraisal, and coping model of Lazarus and Folkman (1984) was used as the conceptual framework of the study. The sample of the study consisted of first-time fathers whose wife was diagnosed with high-risk pregnancy who sought prenatal care from Prapokklao Hospital, Chantaburi Province, from February to April, 2007. A total of 100 subjects were recruited by means of purposive sampling, and data were elicited using demographic characteristics questionnaire, social support questionnaire, uncertainty in parturition questionnaire, stress questionnaire, and stress coping behavior questionnaire. The findings revealed that uncertainty in parturition, social support, and educational background could together significantly explain 21 % of varience in stress of first-time fathers dealing with spouse's high-risk pregnancy (R2 = .21, p ‹ .05). In addition, social support could explain 5 % in coping behavior of first-time fathers dealing with spouse's high-risk pregnancy in terms of confrontive coping behavior (R2 = .05, p < .05), uncertainty in parturition and stress could together significantly explain 26 % in coping behavior of first-time fathers dealing with spouse's high-risk pregnancy in terms of emotional coping behavior (R2 = .26, p < .05), and stress, uncertainty in parturition, and age could together significantly explain 22 % in coping behavior of first-time fathers dealing with spouse's high-risk pregnancy in terms of palliative coping behavior (R2 = .22, p , .05). Based on the findings of the study, it is recommended that fathers' stress and related factors such as educational background, social support, znd uncertainty in parturition should be assessed to enhance nurses to provide more effective nursing care for first-time fathers who deal with high-risk pregnancy.

Keywords: stress, coping behavior, first-time fathers, high risk pregnancy

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2008

Address: Department of Obstetric Nursing, Phrapokklao Nursing College

Code: 2010000288

ISSN/ISBN: 0857-8052

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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