Park Jeong Eon, Lee Byoung Sook
Department of Nursing, Uiduk University, Gyeongju, Korea.
College of Nursing, Keimyung University, Daegu, Korea.
J Korean Acad Nurs. 2017 Apr;47(2):277-288. doi: 10.4040/jkan.2017.47.2.277.
This study was performed to identify the experience of becoming a father of a high risk premature infant.
Grounded theory was used for this research. The participants were 12 fathers who had premature infants lighter than 2,500g of birth weight, less than 37 weeks of gestational age and having stayed 2 weeks or longer in a NICU right after birth. Theoretical sampling was done to identify participants and indepth interviews were done for the data collection. For data analysis, the process suggested by Corbin and Strauss was used.
For these participants the core phenomenon of the experience of becoming a father of a high risk premature infant was 'striving through with belief and patience'. The phenomenon was 'being frustrated in an unrealistic shock'. Contextual conditions were 'uncertainty in the health status of the premature baby' and 'no one to ask for help' and intervening conditions were 'possibility in the health recovery of the premature baby' and 'assistance from significant others'. Action/interaction strategies were 'withstanding with belief in the baby' and 'enduring with willpower as head of the family' and the consequence was 'becoming a guardian of the family'.
For the participants, the process of becoming the father of a high risk premature infant was striving through the situation with belief in their babies' ability to overcome the crisis and waiting for the babies' recovery with patience.
本研究旨在确定成为高危早产儿父亲的经历。
本研究采用扎根理论。研究对象为12名父亲，他们的早产儿出生体重低于2500克，胎龄小于37周，出生后在新生儿重症监护病房（NICU）住院2周或更长时间。通过理论抽样确定研究对象，并通过深度访谈收集数据。数据分析采用Corbin和Strauss提出的方法。
对于这些研究对象来说，成为高危早产儿父亲的经历的核心现象是“带着信念和耐心坚持到底”。该现象之前是“在不切实际的震惊中感到沮丧”。背景条件是“早产儿健康状况的不确定性”和“无人可求助”，中间条件是“早产儿健康恢复的可能性”和“重要他人的帮助”。行动/互动策略是“怀着对孩子的信念坚持”和“作为一家之主凭借意志力忍耐”，结果是“成为家庭的守护者”。
对于研究对象来说，成为高危早产儿父亲的过程是带着对孩子克服危机能力的信念挺过难关，并耐心等待孩子康复。
