Nebahat Bora Güneş
Hacettepe University, Turkey
Title: The comparison of perceivied learning needs of the mothers with preterm infants before and after discharge
Biography
Biography: Nebahat Bora Güneş
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to compare perceivied learning needs of the mothers with preterm infants when the babies are in neonatal intensive care unit and 10 days after discharge
Methods
The survey consisted of 43 care domains on which mothers feel themselves enough or not and may or may not need education during their baby's hospitalization in the NICU. For each domain, mothers were asked if they feel enough or willing to learn about prior to discharge. Mothers were given structured discharge education prepared according to the questionare during their hospitalizations. Ten days after discharge mothers were asked the same questions again in their homes.
Results
Of 80 questionnaires distributed, 74 (92.5%) were completed and analyzed. During NICU hospitalization, the highest need for learning was about the protect from ilness and safety such as vaccinacition (n=44) and follow up (n=46). The feeding ways and details about feeding such as hygiene of bottle (n=43) and preparing formula (n=43) followed the safety and maintainig health applications. In the follow up survey after the structured the leading learning needs were not existing. Instead care problems such as the care for daper dermatitis (n=46) and care in the colic (n=52) were main learning needs.
Conclusion
Asking parents directly about their learning needs and preferences may be the most reliable way for healthcare professionals to ascertain how to support and promote individual parents’ learning when sharing management of their baby’s special conditions at home. However the professionals should consider that mothers may declare the learning needs only according to their perceptions before they stand alone with the baby