Abstract:
A hospitalized child with intubation would be resulted in the mothers uncertainty in the
child illness. Those mothers are necessary to have informational and emotional supports to decrease
their uncertainty. This quasi-experimental research aimed to examine effects of the informational
and emotional support program on uncertainty in illness among mothers of children with intubation.
A purposive sampling was used to recruit 30 mothers of ill children with intubationadmitted to the
PICU, Trang Hospital. There were 15 participants in the control group received routine care of the
hospital while the other 15 participants in the experimental group received the informational and
emotional support program. Research instruments consisted of the demographic questionnaire and
the mothers perception of uncertainty questionnaire. Its Cronbachs alpha reliability was .82.
Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and t-test.
The result revealed that after completion of the intervention, the mean difference scores
of mothers,
uncertainty in the experimental group were significantly more than those in the control
group (t= 4.31, p< .01). Within the experimental group, mean score of mothers uncertainty after
the intervention was lower than before receiving the program (t= 30.59, p< .01).
These findings indicate that the informational and emotional support program is
effective. It could be lessen uncertainty in mothers of children with intubation. Therefore, nurse
should utilize this program with mothers of children with intubation in other settings.