Post partum Women's learned resourcefulness

Amaç Labour is one of the most important life experience that causes stress in women. Anxiety, uncertainty, loss of control, self confidence, patterns of coping, support systems, fatigue, optimism, fatalism, and aloneness are some of the psychosocial factors to consider when caring for a women in labour. Learned Resourcefulness it is important that coping with post partum stress. Learned resourcefulness refers to a set of well-learned behaviors and skills by individuals self regulate or control their behavior. it is seen as a personality repertoire that includes mainly three functions for example, regressive self control helps the individual to regulate internal response, such as pain, emotions, and cognition that interfere with the smooth execution of an ongoing task. Reformative self control enables individuals to change their current behavior in the hope of achieving a greater reward in the future by using planning skills, problem-solving strategies, and the delay of immediate gratification. Experiential self-control enables individuals to experience and enjoy unknown and pleasurable activities to the fullest. This descriptive study was conducted to establish that labour experiences of women Learned resourcefulness.
The study was between 1 February 2002- 31 May 2002 in Zeynep Kamil Women's and Child Hospital, in İstanbul. Sample consist of 226 women who had a labour experience in those days and accepted participate in to this study. That were asked to fill 36 item Rosenbaum Learned Resourcefulness Scale that translate and made validity and reliability study by Siva (1991), and a questionnaire that was developed by resources in the postpartum first three days. Rosenbaum Learned Resourcefulness covers a) the use of cognition and self instruction to cope with emotional and physiological responses b) application of problem-solving strategies c) ability to delay immediate gradification and d) a general belief in one's ability to self regulate internal events.

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it was determined that mean age of sampling group (n=226) included in the study was 25 .36±4. 86 years, number of pregnancy 2.46 ± 1.89, time of married 65.75 ± 55.16 month. Average Rosenbaum Learned Resourcefulness scale scores were 121.64 ± 17.33 on first three days in postpartum. in this scale is possible scores range from 36-180.

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