Effect of an educative and supportive program on the anxiety of parents who have infants with hyperbilirubinemia and received phototherapy during the postpartum period.
Abstract:
The purpose of this quasi-experimental research was to determine the
effect of an educative and supportive program on the anxiety of parents who had
infants with hyperbilirubinemia, which required the infants treatment with
phototherapy during the postpartum period. The sample consisted of 60 parents who
had infants with hyperbilirubinemia and received phototherapy at
Pahonpolpayuhasaena Hospital, Khanchanaburi, Thailand. They were divided into a
control group and an experimental group. The control group received usual care from
nursing staff, and the experimental group received usual care as well as educative
supportive program from the researcher. This study was carried out from June 2005 to
August 2005. The demographic data questionnaire and the State Trait Anxiety
Inventory Form X-1 were used to collect data. Descriptive statistics and inferential
statistics were used to analyze the data.
Results of the study indicated that after receiving the educative and
supportive program the parents had a lower anxiety score than before the study
(p < 0.001). Moreover, the parents in the experimental group had a lower anxiety
score than the parents in the control group (p <0 .001).
Based on findings of the study, the researcher suggests that nurses should
continue to use the educative supportive program in this parent group. These
measures would improve the quality of nursing care.