Abstract:
The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to investigate the effect of giving concrete-objective information with maternal participation on fear of intravenous infusion among preschool children. Forty preschoolers admitted to the pediatric unit of Somdetprapinklao Hospital and received IV for first time were recruited. Random assignment with matched pair were used to assign subjects to an experimental and a control group. The intervention consisted of reading a cartoon book containing concrete-objective information about a child receiving intravenous infusion by a nurse. Mothers stayed with their children during the story reading, encouraged them to touch intravenous infusion equipments, and joined with the nurse in intravenous infusion demonstration. Childrens fear of intravenous infusion was measured by the Intravenous infusion Fear Scale modified by the researcher from the Aerosol Therapy preschoolers fear behavior Scale of Kasemsook and Chaiyawat (2009). Its content validity index was .90 and interrater reliability was .94. Data were analyzed by independent t-test and Two-way Repeated Measures ANOVA, at the level of statistical significance of .05. It was found that fear of intravenous infusion of preschoolers receiving the concrete-objective information program was significantly lower than that of the preschoolers receiving routine information, at the level of statistical significance of .05.