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KMID : 0915920000030010073
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Korean Parent-Child Health Journal
2000 Volume.3 No. 1 p.73 ~ p.94
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A Comparative Study on Education Needs in Low Birth Weight Infant`s Mother at Discharge and after One Month at Home
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Choi Sun-Jung
Kwon Mi-Kyung
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Abstract
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This study was designed to compare the education needs in LBW infants mother at discharge and after one.morth at home´for development of the educational program. The subjects of this study consisted of 61 mothers of LBW infants at discharge and 51 mothers of. LBW infants after one month at home. They were selected by convenience from 3 general hospitals and 1 pediatric hospital in Seoul, Kangreung and Inchon. The data were collected during the period from January, 5 to March, 15, 2000. The Education Needs for LBW infant Care was measured by questionnaire that has developed by researchers.
The data were analized by descriptive statistics, non-paired t-test & ANOVA using SAS.
The results of this study were asfollows
1) . The educational need, of the mothers of LBW infant at discharge were higher than -the mothers of LBW infant after one month at home(t=8.72, p=.00).
2) There were significant associations between the educational needs of the mothers of LBW infant after one month at home and numbers of children (F=3.61, p=0.03).
3) There were significant associations of the educational needs between the mothers of LBW infant at discharge and the mothers of LBW infant after one month at home in categories and items.
(1) There were significant associations by categories such as Infant care (t=8.34, p=.00), feeding(t=6.71, p=.00), unusual behavior (t=6.54, P=.00), Management disorder (t=8.67, P=.00), attachment between parents and infant(t=5.19, p=.00) and environment (t=6.14, p=.00).
(2) There were two items that represented the highest educational needs in all items.
That were "How about we can do when infant has a breathing disorder´ and ´How about we can do when infant has a seizure".
These two items included Management of disorder category.
In Conclusion, when the nurse teaching the method of infant care to mother. educational contents must be included about Management of disorder emphatically.
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KEYWORD
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Low Birth Weight infant´s Mother, Education needs
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