Maternal caring ability with the preterm infant: A Rogerian concept analysis

Abstract

Aim To analyze the concept of maternal caring ability for a preterm infant to develop an operational definition. Background Each year, many newborns are born preterm and admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Although their mothers are prepared for discharge home by the staff, it is difficult to identify an operational definition of their maternal caring ability for the preterm infant. Design Concept analysis. Data sources Searches used PubMed, as the primary health‐related literature, ProQuest, Science Direct, CINHAL, web of science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. Keywords caring ability, mother, and preterm infant were used to analyze the development of the concept from 1965 to 2020. Methods Rogers' and Knafl's evolutionary approach has been used to explain the concept of maternal caring ability for the preterm infant. Results The combined searches yielded 23,291 documents published in English. After the screening process, 43 documents were selected. The Graneheim and Lundman analysis method was used to identify the themes related to the attributes of maternal caring ability. Findings showed the caring ability to have four antecedents (maternal characteristics, support systems, infant characteristics, and the illness severity), four attributes (knowledge and skill in neonatal care, self‐efficacy, sensitivity, responsibility, and problem‐solving), and three consequences (parental adjustment, improving infant growth and development, and improving parent–infant relationships). Conclusion The caring ability of the mother of a preterm infant is grounded in an adequate knowledge of caregiving needs of a preterm infant, high caregiving skills, a sense of self‐efficacy, problem‐solving, sensitivity, and responsibility.

Development and psychometric evaluation of "Caring Ability of Mother with Preterm Infant Scale" (CAMPIS): a sequential exploratory mixed-method study

“…We explored attribute of take caring ability concept. Findings showed a mother with optimal caring ability has sufficient knowledge, high skills, a sense of sufficient self-efficacy [ 17 ]. This step resulted in 69 initial items generation.…”

“…The purpose of this step was to explain the concept of caring ability in the mothers of preterm infants, and to create a set of items to design the target scale. This step involved the identification of concepts through literature review published from 1995 to 2020 [ 17 ] .…”

“…These scales aim to provide a means of measuring the caregiver's expectations regarding the outcomes of their caregiving efforts. Although our previous study show a mother with optimal caring ability has sufficient cognitive ability, technical ability, and psychological ability [ 17 ]. This is a clear gap in the designed scale that could be overcome by a new scale that focuses take caring ability of mother with preterm infants.…”