Research On Situation Of Postpartum Quality-of-life And Its Influential Factors Among The Mothers Of Premature Infants

In recent years, the preterm infants’ birth rate has a gradual upward trend,alarge-scale survey showed that the birth rate of preterm children is9.9%[1]. Thegestational age of preterm children are usually less than35weeks and they are incritical condition, so the mother feel it is a great stress events to their birth. Themothers of preterm children bear the enormous pressure and responsibility in thepuerperium and their quality of life is influenced by a variety of factors, such asphysical, psychological, social, economic, environmental factors. But only tofind out the relevant factors can we take measures to improve their quality of life.Therefore, it is necessary to study the quality of life and its influential factorsamong the mothers of premature infants.Objective：Use the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire to investigate the postpartumquality-of-life and the influential factors among the mothers of premature infants.This study can provides a theoretical basis to the healthcare providers for takingsome effective measures to improve the postpartum quality-of-life among preterminfants’ mothers.Method：A descriptive，cross-sectional study was used. By convenient sampling，230women were recruited from the Second Hospital of Jilin University.The women after delivery at the outpatient department of the hospital．And120women arepreterm children’ mothers (study group),110women are full-term infants’mothers (control group). The WHOQOL-BREF questionnaires,Social SupportRating Scale and self-designed questionnaire are applied to assess their quality oflife, social support, and other influential factors. The data is analyzed withsofeware SAS and the statistical methods include descriptive statistics,independent sample t test and χ2test, Pearson and Spearman correlation analysis,stepwise regression.Results：(1)To compare the general information of preterm infants’ mothers withfull-term infants’ mothers, there is no significant difference in statistically andtwo samples are comparable.(2)The postpartum quality of life among the premature infants’ mothers arelower than that of the full-term infants’ mothers and there is significant differencein statistically．(3)The multiple regression analysis shows the main factors that influence thephysiological dimension of quality-of-life are the infants’ hospitalization time,family income, Yuesao or Confinement centers, mode of delivery, birth weight;the main factors that influence psychological dimension are gestational age,social support, the number of caregivers, the marital relationship; the mainfactors that influence the social dimension are occupation,social support, and postpartum follow-up; the main factors that influenced the environmentaldimensions are residence, occupation,Yuesao or confinement center, birth weight,family income, gestational age; the main factors that influence the overall scoresare the birth weight, social support, Yuesao or Confinement center, familyincome, age, number of caregivers.Conclusions：(1)The postpartum quality of life among the premature infants’ mothers arelower than that of the full-term infants’ mothers(2)The maternal age, residence, family income, occupation, number ofcaregivers, Yuesao or Confinement center, social support, postpartum follow-up,the marital relationship (Demographic and sociological factors); mode ofdelivery, gestational age, birth weight, the infants’ hospitalization time (medicalfactors) are the main factors that influence the postpartum quality-of-life ofpreterm infants’ mothers...