ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Narumol Gajaseni

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Relationships among selected basic conditioning factors, maternal child-care agency and maternal caregiving behaviors upon febrile children aged 3 months to 6 years

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Thai Journal of Nursing Research,Vol.8, No.1, January-March 2004, Page 14-24.

รายละเอียด / Details:

The purposes of this study were to describe of the concepts of maternal child-care agency and maternal caregiving behaviors, and to identify factors influencing maternal caregiving behaviors. Orem's general theory of nursing (1985) was used as a framework of the Pediatric Out-Patient Department of Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital were selected by purposive sampling between August and October 2002. A three-part questionnaire was used to collect the demographic data, maternal child-care agency for fever management, and maternal caregiving behaviors upon febrile children aged 3 months to 6 years. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression. The results of this study indicated that most of the mothers had high scores for child-care agency and maternal caregiving behaviors. However, they had some limitations regarding child-care agency, especially knowledge about body thermometer measurement and complications of fever, and capability to calmly manage the fever. They also had some inappropriate maternal caregiving behaviors, particularly thermometer application and tepid sponging duration. Basic conditioning factors (education duration, experiences in febrile-child care, and information resources) alone and together with maternal child-care agency could account for 49.4% and 59.3% of the variance in maternal caregiving behaviors, respectively. It was then concluded that mothers who had high education, many febrile-child care experiences, many information resources, and a high level of child-care agency would have appropriate maternal caregiving behaviors. Thus, in order to maintain a high level of maternal child-care agency, and to adjust the limitations of child-care agency and promote the appropriateness of maternal caregiving behaviors upon febrile children aged 3 months to 6 years, nurses should create an appropriate supportive-educative nursing system based on all of the above variables.

Keywords: basic conditioning factors, child-care agency, febrile children, maternal caregiving behaviors, psychiatric nursing, nursing care, service, regression, stress, psychology, behavior

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2004

Address: Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University

Code: 100096

ISSN/ISBN: 0859-7685

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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