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  • Caring for the sick newborns in nurseries in a developing setting: Evaluation of the psychosocial burden on caregivers

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    Ekwochi, Uchenna
    Asinobi, Isaac N
    Ifediora, Christian
    Ndu, Ikenna K
    Onah, Stanley Kenechukwu
    Amadi, Ogechukwu F
    Osuorah, Chidiebere D
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    Ifediora, Chris O.
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    2020
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    Background: Caring for the sick newborn in a developing setting is very challenging. Apart from the medical facilities and expertise of the medical team, other factors such as the ability of the caregiver to adapt to the financial, economic, and psychosocial demands associated with the illness process also determine survival. This study explored the psychosocial burden of caregivers and its related factors in a developing setting. Methodology: This cross-sectional and analytical study was carried out prospectively over an 18-month period at the Special Care Baby Unit of Enugu State University Teaching Hospital. Caregivers ...
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    Background: Caring for the sick newborn in a developing setting is very challenging. Apart from the medical facilities and expertise of the medical team, other factors such as the ability of the caregiver to adapt to the financial, economic, and psychosocial demands associated with the illness process also determine survival. This study explored the psychosocial burden of caregivers and its related factors in a developing setting. Methodology: This cross-sectional and analytical study was carried out prospectively over an 18-month period at the Special Care Baby Unit of Enugu State University Teaching Hospital. Caregivers who consented were consecutively enrolled. IBM SPSS version 20 was used for data analysis and statistical significance was set at P ≤ 0.05. Results: There was a wide range of psychosocial burden experienced by caregivers during the admission period of the sick newborn. The most common encountered psychological burden included catastrophic economic sacrifice because of baby's ill health (40.0%), worry about not giving the baby the best care (39.7%), feeling of loneliness and isolation (39.5%), tiredness and constant feeling of been worn out (34.6%), and limitation on one's own social life (32.8%). Several factors such as place of birth, educational level of the caregiver, previous preterm baby in the family, length of stay in hospital, number of additional children to look after, and the birth weight of the baby were predictive factors of degree of psychosocial burden faced by caregivers. Conclusion: Caregivers of sick newborn experience significant levels of psychological burden with considerate impact on the care and outcome of newborns. Comprehensive sick newborn care should envisage and incorporate the management of different domains of stressors among caregivers.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Clinical Neonatology
    Volume
    9
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.4103/jcn.JCN_93_19
    Copyright Statement
    © 2020 Journal of Clinical Neonatology. Published by Wolters Kluwer - Medknow. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‑NonCommercial‑ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non‑commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
    Subject
    Nursing
    Sociology
    Paediatrics
    Science & Technology
    Life Sciences & Biomedicine
    Pediatrics
    Caregiver
    developing setting
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/394368
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