Development of assessment tools used by nurses to identify high-risk teenage mothers

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K11724
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Lifelong developmental nursing
• Research Institution: Okinawa Prefectural College of Nursing
• Principal Investigator: Kakazu Izumi 沖縄県立看護大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (50316220)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 前田 和子 千葉科学大学, 看護学部, 教授 (90190298)
• Research Collaborator: TOKUYAMA Chitose ; OOSHIRO Mayumi
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 10代母親 / 若年妊娠 / 若年出産 / 看護支援必要度 / 尺度

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The objective of this study was to develop the assessment tools that nurses use to identify high-risk teenage mothers at three points of pregnancy, immediately after childbirth, and the first month after birth. A sequential mixed method was used. First, we decided a risk assessment framework through literature review and interviews with five doctors and five midwives, then five questionnaires for teenage mothers at the three point, doctors and midwifery nurses were made. Next, we conducted a total of 5 questionnaire surveys with them, and 75 pregnant mothers, 75 mothers immediately after childbirth, 65 mothers at 1 month after birth, 66 doctors, and 67 midwifery nurses completed them.
As results of the statistical analysis, the original drafts of 15 items of "scale during pregnancy”, 15 items "scale at immediately after birth ", and 18 item "scale at one month after birth" were prepared, and the reliability of each scale confirmed.

Free Research Field

母性保健看護