Effects of Multimedia Nursing Intervention on the Knowledge, Competence and Confidence of Mothers with Preterm Infants.

• Main Authors: Nuo-Chi Yeh, 葉娜娸
• Other Authors: Miao-Ju Chwo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79397021132341469358

碩士 === 國防醫學院 === 護理研究所 === 93 === With increasing viability of preterm infants due to recent medical advances, it is important to improve the quality of preterm-infant care. The quality of preterm-infant care includes the knowledge of the mother to care preterm-infants, the maternal competence, and the maternal confidence. This research studies the effect on the preterm-infant care from the intervention of multimedia nursing education. The experimental design of this research used the minimization technique to control the preterm-infant’s weight, the mother’s age, parity, and social-economic status. The sampled subjects were randomly selected and divided into the Control Group (29 mothers) and the Experimental Group (30 mothers). The Control Group received conventional nursing instruction. In addition to the conventional nursing instruction, the Experimental Group received multimedia CD nursing instruction. One week after the discharge of preterm-infants from the hospital, 21 subjects from each Group were surveyed. The subjects were surveyed again at one month after the hospital discharge, but only 12 of the Control Group and 14 of the Experimental Group were successfully completed. The study showed that the Experimental Group mothers have significantly better preterm-infant care knowledge and maternal competence than the Control Group mothers. The maternal competence level increases directly with the frequency of watching multimedia CD. However, comparison showed no difference between the two Groups in the maternal confidence level. Factors contributing to the quality of infant care can be traced to the mother’s age, parity, social support, and feeding method. The preterm infant care knowledge, maternal competence, and maternal confidence are explicitly related with each other. The results proved that the multimedia nursing intervention is a good program to improve the quality of preterm-infant care.