Assess the Effectiveness of an Interventional Package on Level of Stress among Mothers of Baby Admitted in NICU

The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of an interventional package on level of stress. Pre experimental one group pre-test – post-test research design was adopted. 30 mothers of baby admitted in NICU of Dhiraj Hospital, Vadodara were selected as sample by convenience sampling technique. The collected data was tabulated and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. In pre-test 13.33% of the mothers were having moderate Parental stress, 86.67% mothers were having severe Parental stress. Which is been reduced after administration of an interventional Package so, the result found that 30% of mothers had mild Parental stress, 63.33% of mothers had moderate Parental stress and only 6.67% of mothers had severe Parental stress. Researcher has found paired t test value = 34.40 with df: 29 is more than the table value = 1.699 at 0.05 level of significance. So it reveals that interventional package is effective Association between Pre test Parental Stress and demographic variable: age of the mothers, length of hospital stay, education of mothers are non significant at 0.05 level of significance. Whereas the association between level of NICU, family type with pre test Parental stress score are significant at 0.05 level of significance.