探討接受生殖科技孕育之幼兒母親的親職壓力

Parenting Stress in Women Who Concieved Using Assisted Reproductive Technology

余怡珍(Yi-Chen Yu) ； 郭碧照(Bih-Jaw Kuo)

《護理研究》 9卷3期 (2001/06) Pp. 344-353

https://doi.org/10.7081/NR.200106.0344

摘要

不孕婦女承受著不孕所帶來的慢性情緒壓力，這些壓力會影響日後成爲母親角色時，造成負面的親子有關系。本研究目的旨在探討接受生殖科技成功懷孕的幼兒母親其親職壓力的情形，並與自然懷孕的幼兒母親之親職壓力做一比較。本研究採立意取樣，樣本來自於中部某不孕症研究中心接受胚胎植入成功懷孕的幼兒母親，共收取54位個案。研究採結構式問卷法，研究工具包括基本資料、親職壓力量表及家庭功能量表三部份，資料分析以描述性及推論性統計進行。研究結果發現：(1)接受生殖科技成功懷孕的幼兒母親其親職壓力，以親職愁苦次量表的平均得分最高，顯示親職壓力的主要來源爲母親本身的親職角色經。(2)接受生殖科技成功懷孕的幼兒母親家庭功能的優劣與其新職壓力達顯著差異。(3)自然懷孕的母親其親職壓力較接受生殖科技成功孕的幼兒母親高。根據研究結果，護理人員可提早給予接受生殖科技成功的母親適當的咨詢以因應其親職角色，紓解親職壓力。未來研究可輔以訪談或進行質性研究，期能更深入了解親職壓力之來源影響因素。

關鍵字

生殖科技 ； 親職壓力 ； 家庭功能

並列摘要

Infertile women suffer chronic stress, which may negatively impact their parenting relationships if they later succeed in bearing children. The purpose of this study was to explore the parenting stress of mothers attending assisted an reproductive program and to compare it with the parenting stress of mothers with natural pregnancies. A purposive sampling method was used to recruit 54 mothers attending an In Vitro Fertilization/Embryo Transfer and Tubal Embryo Transfer program at an infertility center in central Taiwan. Three instruments were used to collect data: the Demographic Data Form, Parenting Stress Index-Short Form and Family Adaptation Partnership Growth Affective Relation Index. The data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistical methods. (1) The results indicated that the highest average score in parenting stress for mothers receiving reproductive technology was for “parental distress”. These results revealed that the main source of parenting stress was their parental role. (2) Family function varied significantly with parenting stress. (3) Parenting stress was significantly greater in mothers with natural pregnancy than in mothers attending the assisted reproductive program. Recommendations for clinical application and future research are also made. The implications of the study may be used to assist infertile women in coping with parenting roles. Furthermore, a qualitative study is suggested to understand the factors which cause parenting stress.

並列關鍵字

reproductive technology ； parenting stress ； family function

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