Attitudes and beliefs of expectant women toward participation in rooming-in

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Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Wagner, Debra Lynn
Title Attitudes and beliefs of expectant women toward participation in rooming-in
Date 1990-08
Description The purpose of this study was to increase health care providers' knowledge of the influential factors determining a mother's choice to room-in (or not) with her infant in order to facilitate changes necessary to foster optimum maternal-infant relationships. The tool for data collection was a questionnaire devised to identify women's attitudes and beliefs toward participation in rooming-in, based on components of Ajzen and Fishbein's theory of reasoned action. A convenience sample of 78 women attending two Air Force obstetrical clinics was used in the study. Frequency data, correlation coefficients and t tests were used in data analysis. This sample indicated a positive attitude toward rooming-in, and that rooming-in would lead to a favorable outcome on mother, baby, attachment and parenting skills. A strong positive correlation (r = 0.70 - 0.97) existed between the women's attitudes and beliefs about participation in rooming-in. The husband was the most frequently identified person who could influence the woman's own intention to room-in.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Object Attachment; Postnatal Care; Rooming-in Care
Subject MESH Attitude to Health; Infant Care; Maternal Behavior; Maternal-Child Nursing; Mother-Child Relations
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Attitudes and beliefs of expectant women toward participation in rooming-in." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Attitudes and beliefs of expectant women toward participation in rooming-in." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RG41.5 1990 .W33.
Rights Management © Debra Lynn Wagner.
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Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qv3pbj