1Doctoral Program of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University
2Health and Work Safety Departement, Faculty of Public Health, Diponegoro University
3Faculty of Psychology, Diponegoro University
4Midwifery Department, Health Polytecnique of Semarang
5Postgraduate Program of Health Polytechnic of Semarang
6Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University
*Corresponding Author: Cahya Tri Purnami Doctoral Program of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Diponegoro University Email: cahyatp68@gmail.com
Online published on 20 March, 2019.
Midviwes at Primary Health Care (PHC) are a unique profession. They have some complex responsibilities and must standby 24 hours/day to provide medical and administrative maternal and child health care at PHC and community. In addition, the government regulation on PHC accreditation requires skills and concentration of midwives. These responsibilities are thought to contribute to the incidence of stress on them. Objectives: to determine characteristics of midwives and their relationship with perceived stress.
The study included 231 midwives working with PHC from Province of Central Java who responded the online questionnaire for two weeks. A structured questionnaire was used to knew midviwes’ characteristics and assessed perceived stress by perceived stress scale (PSS) instrument. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 20.
Mean age of midwives are 40 years and they are working at accredited PHC (91.3%), only 36.8% who get a training of Basic Obstetric Neonates Emergency (BONE). Almost ¾ midwives have perceived stress in the moderate category (mean= 16.5 SD= 5.08). There were no significant correlation between variables age, number of patients per day, training of BONE, accreditation status of PHC and education with perceived stress (p > 0.05). The correlation between administrative responsibilities by midwives and PSS scores was significant (p < 0.05).
PSS was reliabel to measure perceived stress among midviwes at PHC (Cronbach's Alpha > 0.7). Future research should address to know what kind of administrative task that contribute perceived stress of midwives at PHC.
Perceived Stress Scale, Midwife, Primary Health Care (PHC)
