title: A study of difficulty in child-care during rapprochement crisis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify the relationship between difficulty in child-care and rapprochement crisis of child.
  
  
  METHODS
  413 mothers whose children attended kindergartens.
  
  
  METHODS
  The mothers were given the questionnaire and asked to complete and return it. The questionnaire involved the difficulty in child-care scale (DCCS), rapprochement crisis scale (RCS).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four factors were extracted from the RCS : Ambivalence, Closeness, Expansion of way to express, and Instability. The pearson correlation coefficient showed a significant relationship between DCCS and RCS for 4 and 5-year-olds.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results suggest the importance of assessing the rapprochement crisis when nurse assist mothers with difficulty in child-care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Science, 260 Kamiyanagi, Yamagata City, 990-2212, Japan. ysato@yachts.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yukiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shiwaku
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001007:Anxiety / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002654:Child Care / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires