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Kim, Kim, Kim, Cho, and Kim: Attitude and Awareness of Nurses About Rooming-in System
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Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing

Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing 2010; 16(2): 137-146.

Published online: 30 June 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4069/kjwhn.2010.16.2.137

Attitude and Awareness of Nurses About Rooming-in System

Eun-Young Kim1, Yun MI Kim2, Ji Soo Kim3, Dong Sook Cho4, Eun-Kyung Kim5

1Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Dong-A University, Korea.

2Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, Eulji University, Korea.

3Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Gacheon University of Medicine and Science, Korea.

4Professor, Department of Nursing, Eulji University, Korea.

5Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Mokpo University, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Kim, Yun Mi, Department of Nursing, Eulji University, 212 Yangji-dong, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam 461-713, Korea. Tel: 82-31-740-7183, Fax: 82-31-740-7359, kyunm@eulji.ac.kr

Received 23 February 2010       Accepted 17 May 2010

Copyright © 2010 Korean Academy of Women's Health Nursing

Abstract

Purpose

This study was done to examine the attitude and awareness of nurses about rooming-in for new mothers and their infants.

Methods

Data were collected from 462 nurses from 40 hospitals from August 10 to September 20, 2008 using a questionnaire, and the collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA.

Results

The mean score for attitude and awareness of nurses about rooming-in was 3.02 (range=2.13~3.80), which indicates that the nurses had positive opinions of the system. The factors with the highest and lowest scores were awareness of a successful implementation method (mean=3.35) and awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of the system (mean=2.73), respectively. The attitude and awareness of nurses about rooming-in differed significantly with age, religion, education level, parity, type of hospital, hospital nurse staffing grade (bed-to-nurse ratio), and presence of a rooming-in system.

Conclusion

This results of the study show that attitudes and awareness of nurses to rooming-in differed significantly according to personal factors (age, parity, religion, educational level) and work characteristics (hospital type, hospital nurse staffing grade, presence of rooming-in system). These findings can be used as basic data in determining optimal strategies for a system of rooming-in in the future.

Keywords: Rooming-in care, Attitude of health personnel, Nurses

Figures and Tables

Table 1
General Characteristics of the Participants (N=462)
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Table 2
Attitude and Awareness of Nurses about Rooming-in System (N=462)
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†Reverse coding.

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