The purpose of this study was to analyze current research trends on parenting stress of unmarried mothers in Korea and explore the related concepts.
For searching the literature, KMbase, Korea Med, RISS, NDSL was used. Fourteen studies from 2009 to 2019 were selected, and National Institute of Health (NIH) Study Quality Assessment Tool (SQAT) was applied.
Among the 14 studies, most frequently used study design was correlational study (64.3%), and majority of the study (78.6%) was conducted in the field of social welfare. Only one study was found in the nursing journal. Related concepts can be categorized as individual (cognitive, emotional, and behavioral) factors, and social/environmental factors. Among these, self-esteem, parenting self-efficacy, and health perception in cognitive concept domain, depression in emotional concept domain, parenting behavior in behavioral domain, and lastly, social and interpersonal support were studied as related factors with parenting stress. Overall parenting stress level was higher than moderate, and it was positively related to depression, and negatively related to health perception and social support. Various study tools were used even the original foreign tool was the same, thereby comparisons among studies were difficult.
Future studies are suggested to explore unmarried mother’s physical health problems as well as emotional problems, and to develop reliable measurement tools which can be used in Korean situation. Also, various nursing intervention programs for health promotion and child rearing competence for unmarried mothers should be developed.
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This study compared the effectiveness of group growth-writing program on anxiety, powerlessness, hope and guilt of mother with pediatric cancer patient with those of waiting-list control group. Participants were assigned to two groups: a growth-writing group (N=14), a waiting-list control group (N=14). At baseline, post-treatment and follow-up, all participants completed questionnaires. The growth-writing program was delivered in three sessions. As a result, growth-writing group showed significant decrease in anxiety, guilt and significant increase in hope compared to the waiting-list control group without any activities. However, powerlessness did not have significant change. This study examined that growth-writing could be an effective intervention for mothers with the pediatric cancer patients. Limitations and suggestions for further studies were included.
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This study was performed to develop the newborn parenting program for marriage immigrant primiparas and to identify the effects of this program on their parenting stress and mothers’ role confidence. The participants were thirty marriage immigrant primiparas (15 for intervention group and 15 for control group). The newborn parenting program was consisted of ‘good parenting for newborn’ and ‘infant massage’, which was done through providing information and demonstration using two booklets by 2 times visiting at hospital and home, and 4 times telephone counseling with parenting and infant massage (2 times/day). The data were analyzed with using x2-test, Fisher’s exact probability, and Wilcoxon rank sum test. The program significantly decreased parenting stress and improved mothers’role confidence of the marriage immigrant primiparas in the intervention group compared to the control group. These results indicate that the newborn parenting program is a family nursing intervention which has affirmative effects on the parenting stress and mothers’ role confidence of marriage immigrant primiparas for parenting their child and adjusting their marriage in Korea.
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