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Dr. Sampoornam
Ms. Kiruba
Ms. Shiyamala
Ms. Kowsalya Ms. Vinothini
Ms. Megha Shaju
Ms. Reshma Shaju
Ms. Ashika Priyanka
Context: All women would like to be mothers. All those caesarean mothers feel lack of support from the parents and care giver. This leads to heavy stress from their whole activity. Objectives: To examine the efficiency of nurse tailored experiment on stress among caesarean mothers. Methods: True Experimental – A patient centered Intervention was adopted for the present study in Government Head Quarters Hospital at Erode. Estimated sample size was 30 caesarean mothers out of which 15 mothers in experimental arm and 15 mothers in control arm. Purposive sampling technique was adhered. Hung Postpartum Stress Scale was used to assess the stress pattern. Nurse tailored experiment comprises of neonata l care for maternal role attainment, emotional support (from husband and family) for the lack of social support and maternal care for body changes. Result/ Findings: The Unpaired‘t’ test value in experimental and control arm on Maternal role attainment (2.32), Lack of social support (7.01 ) and Negative body changes (8.54) had respectively. When compared with table value the calculated value was highly significant in experimental arm as compared to control arm. This shows that nurse tailored experiment w as more effective on stress among caesarean mothers . Significant association was found between level of stress and age of the caesarean mother in control arm, weight of the baby significantly associated with stress in experimental arm. Conclusion: Nurse tailored experiment was highly effective in reducing the postpartum stress level among caesarean mothers. Patient centered intervention focused on maternal role attainment.
Keywords: Stress, Caesarean, Mother