Education, Home Care, Mobile Application, Mother, Premature
Conditions
Keywords
Mothers, premature, mobile application, education, home care
Brief summary
mobile application will be developed to support the post-discharge home care of mothers of premature babies. With the developed mobile application, the effect of the education given to the mothers on the knowledge and skills of infant care, mother-infant attachment, and the mother's self-efficacy will be evaluated.
Detailed description
This research aims to examine the effect of the mobile application developed for the home care of the babies of the mothers of premature babies on their baby care knowledge and skills, mother-infant attachment and mother self-efficacy. A mobile application will be developed to support mothers who care for their premature babies at home after discharge. The application will be installed on the phones of mothers whose babies are discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit. After the babies are discharged, mothers will be trained at home with a mobile application. Maternal self-efficacy and mother-infant supplementation will be measured when infants admitted the NICU and one month after discharge the NICU.
Interventions
providing training to mothers of premature babies with a mobile application
Sponsors
Ankara University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
randomized controlled interventional research
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
For mothers; * Being over the age of 18, * Having a premature baby * At least primary school graduate, * Smart mobile app can be installed have a phone, * Being able to understand and speak Turkish, * Residing in Ankara For babies; * 32-37 weeks of gestation of the baby (middle and borderline premature) * Baby in neonatal intensive care unit to stay * Not having undergone a surgical operation, * Absence of physical anomalies
Exclusion criteria
For Mothers; * Diagnosed with postpartum depression * unwillingness to participate in the study For babies; \- Very small preterm (born below 28 weeks of gestation) and small preterm (between 28 and 31 weeks of gestation)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| parent self-efficacy scale | up to 10 months | scale that measures mother's self-efficacy for baby care.The unabridged name of the scale is parent self-efficacy scale. The lowest score obtained from the scale is 18, the highest score is 90. low score indicates high self-efficacy |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| maternal attachment scale | up to 10 months | scale that measuring mother-infant attachment. The unabridged name of the scale is maternal attachment scale. The lowest score obtained from the scale is 26, the highest score is 104. A high score indicates high maternal attachment. |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| baby care knowledge and skills form | up to 14 months | Form that measuring baby care knowledge and skills. The unabridged name of the form is baby care knowledge and skills form. Since the form created by the researcher has not been finalized, the lowest and highest scores to be obtained from the form are not certain. A high score indicates a high level of knowledge and skill of the mother. |
Outcome results
None listed