Nurse-guided mobile health care program to reduce emotional distress experienced by parents of infants prenatally diagnosed with critical congenital heart disease: A pilot study

Stress Coping Strategies in Parents of Newborns and Infants with Congenital Cyanotic Heart Disease with Regard to Stress Levels and Negative Emotions

“…Parents participating in the study who showed high levels of stress correlated with negative emotion focused on their emotions, denied the situation, gave up making efforts to achieve a goal, and were more likely to use stimulants to temporarily alleviate unpleasant emotions. If such a group of parents is detected by a medical team who are not psychologists, especially while diagnosing a defect in a child in the prenatal period, [42], this will allow for early support measures to be taken [14], and in the case of parents in a particularly difficult emotional situation, this will allow them to be referred for professional psychological support. This is important because reports indicate that stress persists for a long time with an upward tendency, even until the child reaches preschool age [43,44].…”