| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔英科技大學 === 護理系碩士班 === 105 === Research Background: According to the Health Promotion Administration, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (2015), 20% of infants under 1 year old suffer from intestinal colic. They continually cry, scream and are upset, and it’s difficult for parents to soothe them. In severe cases, some parents suffer physical and mental anxiety problems, due to which around 6-25% of parents visit their doctor for help.
Research Objectives: The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of introducing hygiene health education to parents to help change their attitudes and develop their knowledge on treatment of infant intestinal colic.
Research Method: By the method used to design the experiments, we choose parents of infants confirmed to be suffering from intestinal colic from the pediatrics service of the southern teaching hospital as the experimental subjects, and divided them into the treatment group (n=70) and control group (n=70) by random sampling. The hygiene health education literature (a handbook on infant intestinal colic care and guidance on infant massage) was then introduced to treatment group. Pre-post tests and tracking tests (3 weeks) were conducted by a structured questionnaire, including questions regarding parents’ knowledge, attitudes and treatment of infant intestinal colic and other basic knowledge. The effects of the treatment completed by the treatment group were tracked by telephone interviews 3 months later.
Research Results: After the treatment group received hygiene health education, their scores on knowledge, attitudes and treatments were higher than the scores of the pre-test. Post-test scores (3 weeks) were slightly lower but still higher than pre-test scores and significantly higher than the control group’s scores. Telephone interviews were conducted as a follow-up on how the treatment group’s parent treatment of infant intestinal colic was 3 months after their returned home. It was discovered that the effect of treatment is higher than that of the pre-test, post-test and tracking test (3 weeks), and demonstrates that the introduction of hygiene health education to the treatment group results in a higher relief rate of intestinal colic compared to the relief rate of the control group.
Conclusion/Practice: The study demonstrates that the introduction of hygiene health education can improve parents’ knowledge, attitudes and ability to treat infant intestinal colic. It is worthwhile sharing this information with hospital clinics and postnatal nursing institutions that care for infants diagnosed with infant intestinal colic. In terms of education and study, this proposal can be updated into clinical care education, to help clinical nurses to develop a primary understanding of infant intestinal colic that meets the needs and knowledge level of parents to help parents in the treatment process, which will relieve the strain on clinical nurses.
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