Penulis: Ong Swee Leong, Azmi Hassan

The mothers’ experience of stress and anxiety can worsen if they have low knowledge and NICU-related ability; mothers of infants admitted in NICU require relevant information to cope with this situation.  These NICU related psychological problems (stress and anxiety) have also been shown to affect the mother’s quality of life.  Interventions based on the provision of educational information and psychological support was shown to have effectively reduced maternal psychological problems in NICU, i.e., a nurse-led intervention, early educational and emotional support for parents of preterm infants. The main purpose of this book is to discover the maternal psychological issues faced by mothers’ who premature baby admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This book will be benefited to mothers especially those with premature babies, students' nurses, staff nurses, doctor and related field researcher as a reference.