Nivel de estrés de las madres de niños y niñas hospitalizados en el área de neonatología del Hospital Homero Castanier Crespo, Azogues 2022

The hospitalization of a newborn creates a psychological impact on mothers due to the interruption of the mother-child bond. It distorts the parents’ expectations of having a healthy child, includes stress, anxiety and even depression. The role of the Early Stimulator in this process is to help parents create this bond. Objective: To identify the level of stress of mothers with children hospitalized in the neonatal area of the Hospital Homero Castanier Crespo, 2022. Methodology: Observational, descriptive and prospective study, with a sample of 121 mothers with children hospitalized in Neonatology, to whom were applied the forum of date recollection and the Parental Stress Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care unit. Processing the data in the following programs: IBM SPSS version 25 Spanish, Microsoft Excel 2019, calculating: mean, mode, median and standard deviation. Results: Of the population studied, 52, 1% of the mothers were between 18-26 years old, the 38, 8% live in a free union. Mothers with an education at high school level make up 3%, 60. In general, 62% of the mothers present a serious level of stress. Conclusions: The mother who presents the greatest stress are those who live in a consensual union, being the mothers between 22-26 years old with more stress, having a level of education mostly of high school, predominating the level of serious stress in the study.