The Role of Nurse Midwifery to Integrated Stress Management among Pregnant Adolescent Women

Abstract

Teenage pregnancy causes stress more than normal pregnancies due to physical, mental, emotional, and social changes. This could result to complications a teenage pregnant mother could further encounter. They may be experienced with disability and death. The stress management is important to promote the teenage pregnant women adapt and overcome this crisis. The stress management techniques are developing on the principles, concepts and theories. The nurse midwives should be apply nursing, psychological, and social theories which could be integrated into various programs as the positive thinking and relaxation program and the self – care health promotion program .The role of nurse midwives is to promote and support the teenage pregnant women to manage stress correctly and appropriately which requires the nursing process as an important tool. The nurse midwives should play the role of an assessor, practitioner, and evaluator. The improvement of the promoting programs should be recommended to modify along with the members of the family for maternal and child health all throughout the period of a safe motherhood.