Year: 1995
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Research evaluating the parental acceptance of pediatric day care surgery has shown that parents prefer this method to conventional surgery.However, parents continue to experience significant anxiety in the day care setting and it is currently unclear what factors are predictive of their distress.In this study, it was hypothesized that mothers' state anxiety while their child was undergoing day care surgery would be positively related to maternal trait anxiety and negatively related to maternal age, the number of children in the family, the presence of a support person for the mother, the child's age, and the number of previous pediatric hospitalizations of the hospitalized child.One hundred and thirty-five mothers attending British Columbia's Children's Hospital Day Care Surgery Unit between August and October, 1994, participated in this study while they waited for their child to undergo surgery by completing the State Scale of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Neuroticism Subscale of the NEO Five Factor Inventory, and a General Questionnaire developed by the author.Multiple regression analyses revealed that, after controlling for gender and the type of surgery children experienced, only maternal trait anxiety and the number of children in the family predicted maternal state anxiety in the expected directions.Mothers who expressed a desire for more information about their child's surgery in the General Questionnaire were found to be significantly more anxious than mothers who did not want more information, however this variable did not predict a significant amount of variance after that accounted for by maternal trait anxiety and the number of children in the family.Results are discussed in terms of intervention strategies for anxious parents in pediatric day care surgery units and limitations to this type of research.Predicting Maternal Anxiety in DCS vii 13.Content themes for general comments mothers made regarding the current study and/or pediatric day care surgery ..............
Source: Summit (Simon Fraser University)
Author: Natalie Franz
Language: English
Topic: Music Therapy and Health
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W126255419