1Academic Member of Islamic Azad University, Nursing Department – Borujerd Branch, Iran
This research is a Quasi - Experimental study which is performed in order to study the effect of the Education of febrile convulsion for knowledge and performance of those mothers who hospitalized their children in hospitals.
Research society consisted of all the mothers who have hospitalized child with confirmed realization resulted in febrile Convulsion. 120 mothers were chosen as the sample. They equally divided into two groups: Case group and control group. The instrument of gathering data in this research was a questionnaire which is arranged in 3 parts: Personal characterizations, knowledge and performance of mother regarding to febrile convulsion. In order to investigate the influence of education, first of all, the pre test must be taken for both groups. Then during a two hours meeting, education programs concerning to febrile convulsion was consisted of lecturing approach, asking and answering, giving the training booklets to the mothers. After passing 3 weeks of that time, researchers held final test. They recognized how was training effects by comparing the results of previous steps and next steps of training in case group, pretest and post test in control group. To achieve the research objectives, they used statistical approaches. Research findings is gathered in 41 tables, Results showed that the changes of total average scores of knowledge and performance in the field of febrile convulsion before and after education in case group were (−78.02), (−61.31), respectively; The results from pretest and post test in control group were (−1.24), (−2. 29). Further more, test of T independent revealed that regarding to average differential of scores of knowledge and performance in two test steps, there is meaningful statistical differences in both groups. (P<0.0001).
The results showed that there is a kind of direct cooperation between the level of knowledge and performance of mothers before and after training in case group. Their cooperation is meaningful statistically (p<0.000). Regarding to being effective Education on the level of knowledge and performance of mothers the field of febrile convulsion and being practical the Educational al meetings in different health centers, it has been suggested that the nurses prepared all the necessary conditions for parents. They also invited the other personnel of hygiene and treatment group to participate in these meetings.
Education, Knowledge, Performance, Mothers, Febrile Convulsions
