Banca de DEFESA: MAIHANA MAÍRA CRUZ DANTAS

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : MAIHANA MAÍRA CRUZ DANTAS
DATA : 04/11/2016
HORA: 13:30
LOCAL: VC 03 SEDE SINFO
TÍTULO:

Social support to mothers of hospitalized premature babies: elaboration and validity evidences of a scale

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Social support; infant, premature; Intensive Care Units.

PÁGINAS: 135
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Psicologia
RESUMO:

This thesis has as a general aim to elaborate and generate validity evidences of a scale that evaluates
the social support to mothers of hospitalized premature babies. For this purpose, four studies were
developed. Study I, performed a systematical literature review which identified five more used tools for
the social support assessment. As a result it was possible to set a constitutive definition of the construct
which focus was noticed support understood as multidimensional. Study II, semi-structured interviews
were made with a number of 18 mothers premature babies' attendants that were in the Intensive
Therapy Neonatal Unit. In relation to the support that the participants think it is important to be
received during the hospitalization period, the most significant categories were information and
emotional help. Based on the results found in Study I and in the interviews, it was elaborated the
operational definition of the social support. Study III depicted the items' construction and judges'
analysis, being determined content evidences' validity. In Study IV, it was carried out the scale
management on 218 mothers of hospitalized premature babies. In data analysis descriptive statistics
was used, Cronbach's Alfa, exploratory factor analysis, ANOVA, and Pearson's correlation test. Six
support dimensions were identified thus Cronbach's alfa rates and variability, respectively: affective
support (α = 0,904; 29,31%), material (α = 0,905; 10,25%); information (α = 0,90; 5,80%1), emotional (α
= 0,899; 4,10%), foster (α = 0,899; 3,75%;) and attention (0,901; 3,56%), with a global value of alfa 0,92.
The scale for the social support evaluation on mothers of hospitalized premature newborns, presented
suitible and promising psychometric quality, with validity evidences of criterion, internal consistence
and construct validity.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo à Instituição - BERNARDINO FERNANDEZ CALVO - UFPB
Externo à Instituição - DIVANISE SURUAGY CORREIA - UFAL
Presidente - 347027 - EULALIA MARIA CHAVES MAIA
Externo ao Programa - 2140865 - GABRIELA DE SOUSA MARTINS MELO
Externo ao Programa - 2882013 - ISABELLE KATHERINNE FERNANDES COSTA