Effect of Home Care Program for Mothers Having Children with Burn Injury
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
Burn injuries constitute a major public health problem, especially in low- and middle-income countries especially among children due to home accidents. Aim: The study aimed to evaluate the effect of home care program for mothers having children with burn injury. Design: A quasi experimental design was used in this study. Setting: This study was conducted in the outpatient clinic in El Fayoum teaching hospital affiliated to El Fayoum University. Sample: A simple random sample was used to conduct this study. The total number of study sample of mothers was 60 mothers who having primary school children with burn injuries. Tool: Two tools were used in this study for data collection, first tool: A structured interviewing questionnaire, second tool: An Observational checklist to assess mothers’ practices. Results: The study noted that there were 50.0% of mothers were in the age group of 31-40years; with mean ±SD 32.5±2.3, 50.0% of them were illiterate. Meanwhile, 63.3% of them were housewives with 80 % of them had insufficient monthly income. Also the study proved that, there were statistical significant differences between mothers’ knowledge, attitude, and practices between preprogram and post program implementation with notices improvement. Conclusion: The results concluded that, the home care program had an evident effect on improving the mothers’ knowledge, attitude, and practices toward home care of their children with burn injuries. Recommendations: the researchers recommended that, the importance of publication and disseminations of the home care program in all health services to improve mothers’ performance about the care children with burn.
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Mervat Amin, Huwida Hamdy Abd Elmnem
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