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Influence of Age and Parity on the Emotional Care Given to Women Experiencing Miscarriages
Author(s) -
Reed Karen
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1990.tb00181.x
Subject(s) - seriousness , parity (physics) , miscarriage , affect (linguistics) , psychology , medicine , emotional support , perception , clinical psychology , pregnancy , social support , social psychology , physics , communication , particle physics , neuroscience , biology , political science , law , genetics
Obstetrical nurses (N = 309) participated in a study of the hypothetical influence of patients' age and parity status on nurses' emotional care for women who had experienced miscarriage. Vignettes in which age and parity were varied were mailed to the sample along with a questionnaire. After factor analysis, three measures of emotional care were used as the dependent variables: emotional seriousness, priority of care, and emotional support. Analysis of variance showed that the parity status of the woman was a significant variable in the nurses' perceptions of emotional seriousness and priority of care, but did not affect the nurses' perceptions of the need for emotional support. Age was not a significant variable in the three measures of emotional care.