Nukpezah Ruth Nimota, Atanuriba Gideon Awenabisa
Department of Preventive Health Nursing, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana.
Northern Regional Hospital, Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana
BMJ Open. 2025 Jan 15;15(1):e093173. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-093173.
To describe, through the phenomenological lens, the experiences of mothers following preterm birth and admitted at a tertiary hospital.
DESIGN: Descriptive phenomenological study.
Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a tertiary hospital in Ghana.
Mothers who delivered prematurely and were admitted.
Experiences of mothers who delivered prematurely and had their neonates admitted to the NICU.
Four themes and three subthemes were realised: (1) maternal anxiety about unknown outcomes of the newborn condition, (2) the positive impact of family-centred care, (3) maternal roles for preterm care and (4) poor support for maternal involvement in care.
Mothers of preterm newborns sustained varying degrees of emotional trauma and faced challenges that deprived them of active involvement in their newborn care. Despite these, family-centred care was impactful and gave a window of opportunity for mothers to provide maternal roles. We highly recommend tailored emotional and psychological supports for mothers who have delivered prematurely, as it is crucial to ensuring both maternal and neonatal survival.
通过现象学视角描述早产并入住三级医院的母亲们的经历。
设计：描述性现象学研究。
加纳一家三级医院的新生儿重症监护病房（NICU）。
早产并入院的母亲。
早产且新生儿入住NICU的母亲的经历。
确定了四个主题和三个子主题：（1）母亲对新生儿状况未知结果的焦虑，（2）以家庭为中心的护理的积极影响，（3）早产护理中的母亲角色，（4）母亲参与护理的支持不足。
早产新生儿的母亲遭受了不同程度的情感创伤，面临着使她们无法积极参与新生儿护理的挑战。尽管如此，以家庭为中心的护理很有成效，为母亲发挥母亲角色提供了机会之窗。我们强烈建议为早产母亲提供量身定制的情感和心理支持，因为这对于确保母婴存活至关重要。
