| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 護理學系碩博士班 === 96 === This study evaluates the effects of interactive fever instruction on improving parents' fever management in a pediatric emergency department. Based on the Information- Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model, an experimental study with pre and post tests was designed to investigate the effects of the interactive education program. This study took place at a pediatric emergency department in southern Taiwan and sampled a total of 67 participants. The participants were parents of children from ages three months to six years who visited the pediatric emergency department due to the concern their child had a fever.
The parents were randomly assigned to the experimental (n=33) or control (n=34) group. After treating the child and completing the pre-test, parents of the experimental group received the interactive fever instructions while parents of the control group received only a pamphlet. The interactive fever instructions consisted of an interactive CD and a pamphlet of fever instructions. Three days after receiving the education materials and documenting their fever management all parents completed the post-test. The post-test scores of fever management information, attitudes, skills and self-efficiency of the parents in the experimental group were significantly improved over the pre-test. The experimental group had higher scores in the categories of fever management information, attitudes and skills than the control group. Application of interactive fever instructions in the pediatric emergency department demonstrated the effects of improving parents’ fever information and management behavior at home. This interactive education program could help clinical staff provide fever instruction to improve parents’ fever management ability.
|
|---|
