Abstract:

INTRODUCTION: This research has been done as descriptive to identify the needs of the mothers whose babies were admitted to newborn intensive care unit METHODS: The research population includes the mothers who stayed at Fırat University Research Hospital and Elazığ Harput State Hospital from November 2013 to January 2014 and were willing to participate in the research. In the research, the sampling method was not used, the research population formed the sampling of the study. The data was collected via the personal information form which had been developed by the researchers and the face to face interviews with the help of Child Intensive Care Family Need Scale. The percentage values, the averages, t test and X2, Anova test were used to analyze the data. The percentage values, the averages, t test, Kruskal Wallis Analysis, Mann Whitney U test and the correlation analysis were used to evaluate the research results. RESULTS: While there have been no meaningful differences among the groups in terms of the averages of Child Intensive Care Family Need Scale and the babies' genders and diagnoses, a statistically meaninful relation has been identified between the babies' gestation week and the hospital stay periods and Child Intensive Care Family Need Scale. The mothers' ages, jobs, the place where the mothers stayed during their babies' illnesses have been found to be effective on the families' needs (p lt;0.05).  CONCLUSION: In the study, some descriptive characteristics (gestasion, staying time in hospital, parents age, fathers' work, staj with baby) of the babies and the mothers have been found to be effective on the mothers' needs whose babies were admitted to newborn intensive care. It is suggested that the needs of family members should be taken into consideration more carefully by health care workers in terms of the care and the treatment services provided.

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