Care Problems of Parents Who Have Children with Gastrostomy at Home
Journal Title: Eurasian Journal of Family Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Aim: This study was planned to determine the care burden of parents who had child with gastrostomy and affecting factors. Methods: This descriptive and cross sectional study was conducted between April 15th and July 15th, 2017 with 34 parents in pediatric surgery unit at Trakya University Hospital. Data was collected by ‘Survey Form’ and ‘Burden Interview’. Results: The mean age of the children was 9.91±5.26, duration of gastrostomy was 4.65±2.64 years. All of participants were mothers. Mothers’ ‘Burden Interview’ total scores was 35.20±10.54. Burden of mothers were; 11.8% ‘Less’, 52.9% ‘Medium’, 32.4% ‘High’ and 2.9% ‘Extreme’. Most of the mothers (94.1%) were taken information about gastrostomy care. Most of the mothers (82.4%) experienced problems related to gastrostomy care and mothers who experienced problems had more care burden (p=0.033). Mothers who experienced problem related leaking at tube site and who do not know what to do if a problem takes place about gastrostomy had more care burden (p<0.05). Conclusion: The care burden of the mothers were medium and high level. Care Burden of mothers was affected type of problems that mothers experienced at home, status of intervention yourself to problems. We recommended that education should be planned according to the care burden of parents and the affecting factors must be taken into account in this program, and parents should be visited regularly.
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Remziye Semerci, Melahat Akgün Kostak, Özlem Güray
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