Effect of Health Education intervention on Aroused Shame and Stress Level among Parents of Cerebral Palsied Adolescents | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 69, Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2020, Pages 1054-1070 PDF (792.89 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2020.238549 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Nagla Hamdi Kamal Khalil El-Meanawi1; Ayah Shaban Abd-El Fattah Abd-El Rasoul2; Ghada Ahmed Ghazi3; Shadia Ramadan Morsy2 | ||
| 1Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||
| 2Nursing Education, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||
| 3Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Health education is an effective approach for health-care management and developing healthy behaviors. It is principally important with family, caregivers, and mainly, with parents who have teenagers with profound disabilities such as cerebral palsy (CP). Parents’ health teaching about their cerebral palsied adolescents may alleviate their psychological suffering. Nurses in adult care, psychiatric and mental health and nursing education fields have a significant role in developing the heath educational process with those parents. Aim of the study: to determine the effect of health education intervention about cerebral palsied adolescents care management on parents' shame and stress level. Design: a quasi-experimental study. Setting: The study was conducted at the Vocational and Rehabilitation Association of Children with Special Needs and Disabilities in Elrasafa, Moharam Bek, Alexandria, Egypt, which is affiliated to the Ministry of Insurance and Social affair. Subjects: a purposive sample of one hundred parents with cerebral-palsied adolescents. Parents were randomly distributed into study and control groups, fifty in each. Tools: Through interview schedule procedure, triple section questionnaire was used in data collection, which included: Parental Aroused Shame Scale (PAS), Parenting Stress Index Short Form (PSI-SF) – distress subscale, A Socio-Demographic assessment sheet. Results: Results revealed that there was a significant decrease in parents' aroused shame and stress level post health education implementation, in the 2nd and 3rd assessments among the study group considerably. In addition, the study proved that there is a parallel positive relation between aroused shame and stress level among parents with CP adolescents. Conclusion: Health education intervention is a successful approach for nurturing aroused shame and stress level among parents with CP adolescents. Recommendations: Continuous health education programs for parents with CP adolescents are needed as well as investigation of its effects on other physical, psychological, intellectual, social, and spiritual parameters. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Health education; Parental aroused shame; Parenting Stress level; Cerebral palsied adolescents | ||
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