Abstract:
This quasi-experimental research was used to examine the effect of an admission program on anxiety of mothers who have a hospitalized child with respiratory disorders. Self-regulation theory was used as a framework for this study. The subjects were 60 mothers with hospitalized child with respiratory disorder. They were selected by convenient sampling and divided into 2 groups. The subjects were paired by age and education. The mothers in the experimental group were given an admission program while the control group received the usual nursing care. Used a Demographic Data Form, the State Anxiety Inventory (SAI Form Y-I) for data collection, the data were analyzed by paired t-test, independent t-test and ANCOVA with the pre-test score as a covariate. The findings of this study showed that the mean anxiety scores of mothers who received the admission program were significantly lower than those of the control group who received usual nursing care (p<0.001). For the experimental group, the
post-test mean anxiety score was lower than the pre-test mean anxiety score with statistical significance at p-value 0.001.
This finding substantially shows the effectiveness of this admission program. Pediatric nurses can apply this program in their work to help the mothers or relatives of children hospitalized at pediatric wards to cope with their anxiety