The influence of counseling guidance on mother coping with low birth weight infant in the incubator perinatology room of rsud dr. M yunus bengkulu 2018

Low birth weight infant (LBW) are very vulnerable infant to the emergence of a disease. Handling of LBW infant cases should be done in special and intensive care rooms. Individual counseling guidance on mother's coping is very important to be given to mothers with LBW infant. To know the influence of counseling guidance to coping mother with LBW infant. The research design is pre-experiment (one group pre test and post test design). The sample technique used is Consecutive sampling. Analytical technique using Wilcoxon test with p value <0,05. Mean of coping mother before and after given counseling guidance is 38,8889 and 48,7654, there is influence counseling guidance to coping mother with baby LBW with p value = 0,000 <0,05. Effective of counseling guidance makes coping mothers with LBW babies into adaptive coping.