The Effects of Two Educational Strategies on Knowledge, Attitude, Concerns, and Practices of Mothers With Febrile Convulsive Children

Abstract

Background: Febrile seizures are common during childhood and have a good prognosis, although they cause fear and anxiety in parents. Parent education is an important intervention in febrile seizures. Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the effects of two educational strategies, written information vs. written information plus verbal instruction on knowledge, attitudes, concerns, and practices of mothers with febrile convulsive children. Patients and Methods: The study adopts a quasi-experimental research design. A total of 102 mothers of children presenting with febrile seizure and admitted to a teaching hospital in Iran were equally assigned to three groups: Group I received no intervention (control group), Group II received a febrile seizure information pamphlet, and Group III received the febrile seizure information pamphlet plus verbal instruction. Knowledge, attitudes, concerns, and practices of participants regarding febrile seizure were measured as primary outcomes in the pre-and post-intervention stages. Results: The results showed that although only a slight change in attitudes toward febrile seizures was found, both the febrile seizure information pamphlet alone and the febrile seizure information pamphlet plus verbal instruction were significantly effective in improving the knowledge, attitudes, concerns, and practices of mothers with febrile convulsive children toward febrile seizures. Conclusions: This study suggests that written materials in the form of a pamphlet can be an effective teaching strategy for educating parents on febrile seizures. However, written and verbal information should be given together where possible.

Effect of implementing an educational module on improving mothers knowledge, home management and attitude about febrile convulsion

“…This result could be attributed to mothers' knowledge about importance of measuring temperature and controlling fever is the basic step in preventing and controlling febrile convulsion. This result was in an agreement with Barzegar et al [24] who stated that, most mothers take their children's temperature frequently during FC.…”

“…This result was in an agreement with Barzegar et al [24] who reported in his study that the majority of mothers believed that FC episode is a serious condition, can cause brain damage, can be increased and repeated, and more care and consideration are required for febrile convulsive children. In addition, the researcher also reported that, the pretest scores of mothers attitude toward febrile convulsion was low, while, post intervention there was significant improvement (p = .009) in the handout assemble group as compared with that of the control group.…”

“…In addition, the majority of mothers were replying incorrect answer regarding FC can cause brain damage, restrain the child during convulsion, mouth to mouth resuscitation, put a protective device into the mouth during convulsion and giving routine immunization for child with febrile convulsion before module and the percentage was improved after module implementation, this difference was statistically significant, this result was in an agreement with Barzegar et al [24] who stated that, the handout assemble and the handout assemble plus verbal instruction group about febrile convulsion for mothers demonstrated significant improvement in knowledge post intervention.…”

“…This finding was in an accordance with Barzegar et al, [24] who studied the effects of two educational strategies on knowledge, attitude, concerns, and practices of mothers with febrile convulsive children and revealed that, the majority of studied children were the first time of convulsion, also this result was in disagreement with Kheir et al, [25] who reported in his study that, 30% of children had first time seizure.…”

Assessing the Effect of Personalized Nursing on Thrombolytic Hemodialysis Patients After Arteriovenous Fistula Occlusion

“…Base on the report, the number of hemodialysis patients has been increasing by approximately 5% each year [9]. However, in a wide range of nursing intervention areas, hemodialysis patients are exposed to non-compliance risks [10,11]. Personalized nursing intervention is an effective tool to foster appropriate self-care management of patients while lowering healthcare treatment costs and to empower the patient of sick by improving their knowledge, attitudes, concerns, and practices regarding the illness [12,13].…”