Instruction a psycho-educational intervention Program for mothers of premature infants and evaluating its effectiveness on parental stress and improvement of mother- infant relationship

Subject Areas : Educational

somayeh habibpoor ¹ , Gholam Ali afrooz ² , mohsen skokohi yakta ³ , mohamad ali besharat ⁴ , valiolah farzad ⁵ , maryam nakhshab ⁶

1 - Department of psychology, Faculty of psychology, Islamic Azad university , Neka brunch, Neka, Iran
2 - Department of psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Tehran university, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Department of psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Tehran university, Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Tehran university, Tehran, Iran
5 - Department of psychology, Faculty of Psychology, kharazmi university, karaj, Iran.
6 - Department of Medical science, Faculty of Medical science, Mazandaran university, Sari, Iran

Received: 2019-05-11 Accepted : 2020-01-26 Published : 2022-02-20

Keywords: : parenting stress, and premature infants. Intervention Program. Mothers, mother-infant interaction,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study was an Instruction of  psycho-educational intervention program and its effectiveness on parental stress and the improvement of mother-infant relationship. This research was  in fact  an accidental clinical tria that which was done in 2016.The statistical population of this study includes all mothers have a premature baby hospital of Mazandaran province , of these 40 mothers were selected by purposive sampling. And randomly divided into groups,  control group and experimental group. Researcher- made  Educational -psychological intervention program was twelve one-hour sessions. The tools used  in this research were Parenting stress researcher made scale(2017)whose  questions were selected from four  scales  of common parenting stress. And also a researcher made infant-mother interaction checklist(2017).It is worth mentioning that  items of the  checklist were selected from four checklist of common infant-mother interaction. To analyze the research data, Repeated measurement method and Multivariate analysis of variance  were  used.The results show that special psychological educational intervention for mothers of pre mature infants  reduced the stress of parenting in mothers of premature infants and its three component such as parental disturbances, parental-infant disturbances and parental expectations (P < 0.01). And also improved mother-infant interaction(P<0.01). The results of follow-up tests showed that only component of sensitive behavior of mother-infant interaction has been affected(P < 0.05). The results of the study show psychoeducational  intervention program reducing child stress and improving the mother-child relationship-baby has effect.Therefore, it is recommended to use this model of programs of mothers with premature babies.

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