Effects of occupational role strain, life change events, and prenatal risk factors on obstetrical outcomes in hospital nurses.

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Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Siebe, Rhonda K.
Title Effects of occupational role strain, life change events, and prenatal risk factors on obstetrical outcomes in hospital nurses.
Date 1983-12
Description The relationships between stress and pregnancy outcomes in hospital nurses were examined retrospectively. Nurses who had singleton pregnancies completed a questionnaire on perceived role strain, life changes, and perinatal complications. Role strain was significantly correlated to complications during antepartum and marginally related to postpartal problems. Nurses who experienced increased role strain were noted to engender many life changes. If the life changes they experienced were undesirable and only moderately controllable, regardless of role strain, they correlated with intrapartal complications. If problems were noted antepartally, they correlated highly with adverse intrapartal and postpartal outcomes. Complications, intrapartum to postpartum and intrapartum to newborn, were significantly related. Stress did not correlate significantly to newborn complications; nevertheless, the incidence of birth defects was high. No significant differences existed between intensive care and transitional care nurses in terms of role strain or pregnancy complications.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Maternity Nursing; Life Change Events
Subject MESH Nurses; Stress, Psychological; Pregnancy
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Effects of occupational role strain, life change events, and prenatal risk factors on obstetrical outcomes in hospital nurses." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Effects of occupational role strain, life change events, and prenatal risk factors on obstetrical outcomes in hospital nurses." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RG 41.5 1983 S53.
Rights Management © Rhonda K. Siebe.
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier us-etd2,124
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
Funding/Fellowship Alpha Memorial Fund Schoarship from Phi Mu Fraternity.
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68k7qr2