Mothers Health Awareness Toward Their Children Undergoing Congenital Heart Surgery

Abstract

Background: Congenital heart defect is the second cause of death in infancy and childhood and is the leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. congenital heart surgery corrects heart defect that a child is born with it, enhance mothers knowledge and practices toward their children undergoing congenital heart surgery help child to recover early and prevent complication. Aim: this study aimed to assess mothers' knowledge and reported practices toward their children undergoing congenital heart surgery Setting: this study was conducted at outpatient clinic of Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Academy Ain Shams University Hospitals Sample: 70 mothers and their children undergoing congenital heart surgery were included in this study. Tools of data collection: two different tools were used. First tool: consist of interviewing questionnaire to assess socio demographic characteristic of mothers and their children, knowledge, reported practices of mothers for their children undergoing congenital heart surgery, Second tool: Assessment of child health status. Result: revealed that 81.4% of the studied mothers achieved poor knowledge scores. Only 18.6% of them achieved average score and 91.4% of the study sample total mothers' practice was unsatisfactory. Conclusion: there was no a statistical significant relation between the mother's knowledge and reported practices (P >0.05). Recommendation: Comprehensive, multidisciplinary discharge planning should design early and should include the mothers and children contain education regarding congenital heart surgery care, providing mothers with discharge care of their children after congenital heart surgery should become a routine practice to congenital heart surgery department to enhance fast recovery and prevent complications.

Mothers' Care for their Children with Open Heart Surgery

“…This study result was consistent with [13] who studied "Mothers' care for their infants with congenital heart anomalies" and reported that 71% of the studied mothers' total practices were satisfactory. However, the findings of this study were disagreed with [19] who reported that 91.4% of total mothers' practice was unsatisfactory. This might be related to family education system in the hospital which is responsible for providing regular teaching for mothers with children after open heart surgery and ensuring the mothers have gained the necessary skills needed for caring for their children at home.…”