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It is Widely accepted that most of hospitalized children’s mothers have anxieties in any form. Such mother’s anxieties have been proven to have an adverse effect on recovery of their children. Therefore, nurse’s role to alleviate the mother’s anxieties can be of great help in rapid recovery of their hospitalized children. The objective of this study was to eveluate thee effects of nurse’s information and commation and communication on mother’s anxieties whose children are hospitalized. The study started from the following hypothesis : Hypothesis 1 : The anxiety level of mothers of mothers who have received nursing intervention focrsed information and communication will be lower than the one of mothers who have received only routine nursing care. Hypothesis 2 : The mothers who have received the nursing intervention focused on information and communication will show lower anxiety reaction to the hospital environment and regulatione illness and treament medical personnel and in the field of home and economy, compard with the mothers who have not received such cares. Hypothesis 3 : A centain corelation will exist between the mothers anxiety level and their age, educatinal background and religion. This study was conducted for 38 mother’s whose children below below 15 were hospitalized in pediatric unit of there major hospitals in Taegu during the period of May 1. 1982 through May 30. of the 38 mothers, 19 were randomly selected as experimental group and remaining 19, control grup. The experiment and data collection were conducted in the following way : For the first 4- day period of experinent, the nursing intervention focussed on experimental group, while the only rougine nursing care was given to each of control group. Then, datu were collected from the mother’s responses to the distributed questionaires consisting of 42 questions, and analyzed by the method of percentage and T-test the result was as follows ; 1. The experimental group who had received nursing intervention focused on information and communication shoroed less anxieties than the control group who had received only the routine nursing care. 2. Corelation between anxiety and mother’s general characteristics ie age, educational background, was not found. However, a significant difference was noticed between the mother’s group having religions and the one without religions ; the former’s level of anxiety was lower, than that of the latter. The result of study supported the hypothesis focused on information and communication can substantially alleviate anxiety of the mothers whose children are hospitalized. Therefore, a more desirable comprehensief nursing care can be ensured when a nurse devotes more of her time to providing information and communication.
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