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العنوان
Maternal Practices for Prevention and Care of Communicable Diseases for
their Children \
المؤلف
Ramdan, Marwa Abd Allah Salem.
هيئة الاعداد
باحث / مروه عبدالله سالم رمضان
مشرف / ايمـــان اميـــن محمـــد
مشرف / سلمــــي السيــد حســــن
مناقش / هيام رفعت سيـد طنطاوى
تاريخ النشر
2019.
عدد الصفحات
249 ص. :
اللغة
الإنجليزية
الدرجة
ماجستير
التخصص
الأمومة والقبالة
تاريخ الإجازة
22/7/2019
مكان الإجازة
جامعة عين شمس - كلية التمريض - تمريض الأطفال
الفهرس
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Abstract

Communicable diseases resulting from bacterial, viral, protozoan, or fungal organism. In infants and children are more susceptible and develop communicable diseases more frequently than adult. Also communicable diseases caused by transmission of microorganism by direct or indirect contact (Ball et al., 2015).
The child with communicable diseases has a cluster of symptoms specific to the disease that appear at the end of the incubation period until the development of the overt clinical syndrome. Fever is the most common sign of communicable diseases in infants and children. Other signs are related to the specific disease include fatigue, malaise, skin rash, poor appetite, vomiting .diarrhea (Alberts et al., 2012).
The aim of the study
This study aimed to assess maternal practices for prevention and care of communicable diseases for their children.
Research questions:
The current study was answered the following questions
- What are maternal awareness for prevention of communicable diseases for their children?
- What are maternal practices for care of communicable diseases for their children?
Research design:
A descriptive design was utilized to achieve the aim of this study.
Settings:
The study was conducted at fever hospitals in Abbasia and Elfayoum city affiliated to ministry of health and nursery school affiliated to Dar el Salaam school in Elfayoum city.
Subject:
A convenience sample include all available mothers who attended in the previously mentioned setting for six months period; their total number was 130 mothers distributed as 70 mothers at nursery school (healthy children mothers) and 60 mothers at fevers hospitals (diseased children mothers).
Tools for data collection:
Data were collected by using two tools, structured questionnaire sheet to assess mothers characteristic and their knowledge regarding communicable diseases, the second tool reported maternal practice to assess mothers’ practice toward communicable diseases.
1-Structured interview Questionnaire:-
It was designed and developed by the researcher in Arabic language after reviewing the related literature. It covered the following:
Part I: this part is concerned with characteristics of:
- studied subject such as age level of education, Work, residence, number of children in the family).
- The studied children (age, gender, education, ranking).
- Family (residence, number of children, number of family).
-House environment (type of home, number of rooms, the number of person sharing child bed rooms, ventilation, water, electricity, drainage, garbage disposal).
Part II: this part is concerned with knowledge of studied subject regarding preventive measures of communicable diseases such as definition, type, chain of infection, source of infection, predisposing factor, methods of infection spread, mode of transmission, definition of incubation period, definition of convalescence period, preventive measures.
Part III: it isconcerned with knowledge of diseased children mothers regarding curative measures of communicable diseases such as chickenpox, hepatitis A, typhoid, tuberculosis, tetanus, mumps, measles and meningitis
2-Reported maternal practices
It is adapted from Bowden,V (2012) and Wolkoff & Grim, (2011) which divided into
-Reported practice for healthy children mothers such as (hand washing, cough etiquette, food safety, and environmental hygiene).
-Reported practice for diseased children mothers such as (oral medication, topical medication, axillary temperature, cold compress, hand washing, cough etiquette, environmental hygiene, food safety and isolation).
-Field Work:
The actual field work was carried out over 6 months started at the beginning of November (2017) and was completed by the end of April (2018). The researcher was available at each study setting by rotation, three days/weeks (Saturday, Monday and Thursday) during the morning from 9Am to 2 Pm and starting by introducing herself to mothers then informing them about aim of the study. Each mothers was individually interviewed to fulfill the questionnaire sheet by researcher, the time consumed for completion of questionnaire range from 30-40 minutes and mothers reported practice it was consume time 30 minutes to fill in by researcher.
The results of the study can be summarized as the following:
- Two fifth (40%) of healthy children mothers aged 40 years and more, and had secondary or technical education. More than three quarters (78.6%) of them were housewife.
- More than two fifth (41,7%) of diseased children mothers aged 30<40 years . 43.3% had primary education and majority (91.3%) of them were housewife.
- More than two thirds (66.7%) of studied children aged 9years and more and less than two thirds (61.7%) of them were male. Additionally less than two fifth of diseased children were in preparatory school and ranked as second children.
- More than half (57.1%) of mothers of healthy children had unsatisfactory general knowledge regarding preventive measures of communicable diseases, while less than two thirds (63.3%) of mothers of diseased children had unsatisfactory general knowledge about communicable diseases.
- The majority (92.8%) healthy children mothers had inadequate reported practices regarding communicable diseases, while more than three quarters (78.3 %) of diseased children mothers had inadequate reported practices regarding communicable diseases.
- More than three quarters (81.7%) of diseased children mothers had unsatisfactory knowledge regarding to curative measures of communicable diseases.
- There was a statistical significant relation between healthy children mothers education and their total knowledge regarding preventive measures about communicable diseases (p <0.05). Meanwhile there is no statistical significant relation between other characteristics of mothers and their knowledge regarding preventive measures about communicable diseases.
- There was a statistical significant relation between diseased children mothers education (illiterate) and their total reported practice about communicable diseases (p <0.05). Meanwhile there is no statistical significant relation between others characteristics of diseased children mothers and their total reported practice about communicable diseases
- There is a highly statistical significant relation between knowledge regarding preventive measures of diseased children mothers and their total reported practices.
- There is statistical significant relations between healthy children mothers age (<20) and education (university education) and their total reported practice about communicable diseases (p <0.05) .Meanwhile there is no statistically significant relation between other characteristics of healthy children mothers and their practices about communicable diseases.
- There is a highly statistical significant relation between diseased children mother education (read& write) and their total knowledge regarding preventive measures about communicable diseases (P<0.01). Meanwhile there is no statistically significant relation between other characteristics of diseased children mothers and their total knowledge about communicable diseases.
from the result of the present study, the following can be concluded: More than half of healthy children mothers had unsatisfactory knowledge regarding preventive measures of communicable diseases and the majority of them had inadequate reported practices related to communicable diseases. Meanwhile, less than two thirds of diseased children mothers had unsatisfactory knowledge regarding preventive measures of communicable diseases while the majority of them had unsatisfactory knowledge regarding curative measures. In addition to the majority of diseased children mothers had inadequate reported practices related to communicable diseases.
from the previous finding, the following recommendations can be suggested as:
• Health education program for mothers about preventive measures and care of children having communicable diseases in MCH and outpatient in hospital.
• Increase mothers awareness about communicable diseases through mass media as TV, radio, newspapers, booklet, and other communication channels.
• Increase awareness of mothers regarding signs and symptoms of communicable diseases to early detection and management.
• Improve mothers practices for children suffering from communicable diseases.