J Korean Acad Adult Nurs.  2005 Sep;17(4):548-560.

Experience of High Risk Women Who Have Congenital Heart Disease: Transition to Parenthood

• Choi KS
• Jun MH
• Lee HJ

Abstract

PURPOSE
High risk women with congenital heart disease decide to get pregnancy is determined by not individual autonomous intention but complex interaction with their physical status and socio-psychological environments. This study tried to the answer to the question. : "What is experience high risk women who have congenital heart disease during transition to parenthood?". METHOD: A micro-ethnographic research method and oral historic research approach were done at the Grown-Up Congenital Heart Disease Clinic in one Korean metropolitan city from July 2002 to September 2003. RESULT: It was discovered that high risk women's experience of transitional parenthood is accounted as the process of lonely and fearful self-accomplishment. Their need for self- accomplishment creates them seek more opportunities to increase enduring abilities for their parenthood. CONCLUSION: We suggest that from the time of beginning of patient's making decisions about becoming pregnant, collaborative efforts must be considered that priority level of patient's needs be reviewed and find appropriate advices for their situation. Special counseling program should be provided to all the prospective parents with understanding their meaning of parenthood.

Keyword

Heart disease; Parent-Child relations

MeSH Terms

Counseling
Female
Heart Defects, Congenital*
Heart Diseases
Humans
Intention
Parent-Child Relations
Parents
Pregnancy