The effect of hospital preparatory education on parents: A randomised controlled trial
Journal of Pediatric Nursing, cilt.82, ss.87-94, 2025 (SCI-Expanded, SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 82
- Basım Tarihi: 2025
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.pedn.2025.03.005
- Dergi Adı: Journal of Pediatric Nursing
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, CINAHL, MEDLINE
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.87-94
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Paediatric patients, Parents, Stress, Psychological resilience, Parental burnout
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine whether hospital preparatory education has an effect on stress, psychological resilience and burnout levels in parents of paediatric patients. Design and methods: This randomised controlled clinical trial with a pretest-posttest design included parents of children who were hospitalised in a paediatric clinic. Forty-six parents participated in the intervention group and 45 in the control group. The Personal Information Form, Resilience Evaluation Scale (RES), Parenting Stress Scale (PSS) and Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA) were used in the study. As the data were normally distributed, the dependent t-test was used for pre-test-post-test analyses within groups and the independent t-test was used for pre-test-post-test analyses between groups. Results: As a result of the study, it was determined that hospital preparatory education was effective in decreasing the stress levels of the parents of paediatric patients, increasing their psychological resilience levels and decreasing parental burnout. Conclusions: Our results showed that the intervention was effective on parents. Therefore, we suggest that the intervention can be an effective and efficient way to support parents of paediatric patients. Implications to practice: Paediatric nurses, supported by psychiatric nurses, can deliver this intervention regularly to parents of all hospitalised children. This training can also be organised as a hybrid.