Concerning behaviors of the parents with children of congenital heart disease during home care after surgery.

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 護理學系 === 85 === This qualitive research is an attempt to explore, classify and compare the concerning behaviors of the parents with the children who have congenital heart disease and have been taken surgery after a month to a year.Data w...

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Main Authors: LIN, LI-CHUAN, 林麗娟
Other Authors: CHEN YUEH-CHIH
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 1997
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26962125299593586582
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Summary:碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 護理學系 === 85 === This qualitive research is an attempt to explore, classify and compare the concerning behaviors of the parents with the children who have congenital heart disease and have been taken surgery after a month to a year.Data was collect from a retrospective interview that the interview was asked individually to describe their experiences of looking after a congenital heart disease child.The process recordings were written following the interviewing. Concluding analysis was done to describe and classify the parents'' concerning behaviors,and those behaviors were distributed into a description and a frequent occurrence. The main findings revealed three categories of concerning behaviors by theparents taking care of a congenital heart disease child who had a surgery whichinclud: (1) expressive behavior; (2) seeking behavior; and (3) adaptive behavior. (1)Expressive behavior is that the parents express the concern by their personal senses,feelings and mood. (2)Seeking behavior is that the parents seek resources and supportive system to resolve and balance their problems. (3)Adaptive behavior is that the parents take some resolution in advance, and prepare a comfortable and safe enviornment to prevent the child being hurt. In 4065 of concerning behaviors, the highest occurence of concerningbehaviors is expressive behaviors, from father is 68%(1190/1748) and from mother is 72%(1663/2317). The second one is adaptive behavior andthe third one is the seeking behavior. The major aspects of parents'' concern were the body characteristics andthe situation of rearing; the body characteristics including body function, body structure, body feelings and social function;the situation of rearingfor the children including eating, motor activity, sleeping and eliminating.In addition,the parents paid more attention in the situation of rearing fortheir children. Moreover, the fathers perceived the children''s motor activity as important which differed from the mothers, who perceived their children''seating as important. In the aspect of body characteristics, both fathers and mothers agreed the body function of their children as important. This study results provide professional nurses to plan a better dischargecare and home care. The results of this research not only offered recommendations,but also contributed to a relating research to establish a complete and nativereference for nursing. Indeed, this study deveolop home care as central partof nursing and also assist with those families who have children with congenital heart disease to enhance their quality of life.