Maternal Practices for Prevention and Care of Communicable Diseases for their Children | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 68, Volume 10, Issue 1, March 2019, Pages 905-912 PDF (551.08 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2019.251344 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Marwa Abd allah Salem Ramadan1; Eman Amin Mohammed2; Salma Elsayed Hassan3 | ||
| 1Demonstrator of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Beni Suef University | ||
| 2Professor of pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University | ||
| 3professor of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University-Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study aimed to assess maternal practices for prevention and care of communicable diseases for their children. Subjects and Methods: A descriptive study was conducted at fever hospital in Abbasia and Alfayoum city and nursery school. Sampling: A convenience sample include their total number was 130 mothers. Tools: A structured questionnaire format to assess mothers characteristic and their knowledge regarding communicable diseases, the second tool was reported practice to assess mothers practice toward communicable diseases. Results: showed that two fifth of (preventive) healthy children mothers aged forty years and more. Also the majority of (curative) diseased children mothers had unsatisfactory knowledge related to specific communicable diseases. Majority of healthy children and diseased children mothers had inadequate reported practices. Conclusion: More than half of (preventive) healthy children mothers had unsatisfactory knowledge and the majority of them had inadequate reported practices related to communicable diseases. Meanwhile, less than two thirds of diseased children mothers had unsatisfactory knowledge related to general knowledge while majority of them had unsatisfactory specific knowledge. In addition to the majority of diseased children mothers had inadequate reported practices related to communicable diseases Recommendations: The study recommended that, Implementation of health education program for mothers about the preventive measures and care of children having communicable diseases in MCH and outpatient clinic as needed. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| communicable diseases. Mothers ' Knowledge; Practice; Children | ||
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