Perception of the mothers on an about educative manual about visual stimulation of the child<br /> <br />

Journal Title: Revista Eletronica de Enfermagem - Year 2009, Vol 11, Issue 4

Abstract

The lack of knowledge on the part of mothers about their children’s ocular health is a common denominator found when they are asked about this theme, mainly concerning the visual stimulation(VS), which is a component of significant value to the newborn babies’ ocular health. Aimed to investigate in the perception of the mothers of children with risks for visual alterations about the content and application of manual on VS. The handbook was applied to the mothers admitted to the kangaroo-mother ward, with record of interviews where the items of evaluation were approached after the reading of the handbook, in April a June/2005, in Fortaleza-CE, in which they had read under the supervision of the researcher. In 5º day or the high one the 12 mothers were carried through recorded individual interviews on its perception how much to the method of education in health.. The data were in four themes: Perception of the handbook, Knowledge of mothers about ocular health, Handbook’s structure and Promotion of the ocular health. We concluded that the handbook facilitated the learning about visual stimulation, as well as it will make that the visual deficit, in case it appears, is noticed as precocious as possible, in the family life. Besides encouraging the stimulation at home as an indispensable factor to the development of the child, premature or not.

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Grazielle Silva, Maria Cardoso

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Grazielle Silva, Maria Cardoso (2009). Perception of the mothers on an about educative manual about visual stimulation of the child<br /> <br /> . Revista Eletronica de Enfermagem, 11(4), 847-857. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-149906