نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 متخصص کودکان، بیمارستان دکتر شیخ، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی مشهد، مشهد، ایران
2 استاد، مرکز تحقیقات مراقبت پرستاری و مامایی، گروه داخلی و جراحی، دانشکده پرستاری و مامایی، گروه آموزش پزشکی دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی مشهد، مشهد، ایران
3 استادیار گروه آموزش پزشکی، دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی مشهد، مشهد، ایران
4 مربی گروه کودکان، دانشکده پرستاری و مامایی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی مشهد، مشهد، ایران
چکیده
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Background
Caring for a child with cancer is a stressfull experience for parents and can lead to parental burden . Identifying effective factors of caregivers’ burden and designing appropriate strategies to reduce it is necessary . The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of group training on caregivers’ burden of children with cancer.
Method
This was a quasi-experimental study that was performed on thirty parents of children with cancer who were referred to the Sheikh pediatric hospital of Mashhad University. Caregivers' burden questionnaire was used to collect data. The questionnaire was completed before and after group training.The data was compared by spss software.
Results
Mean total score of caregivers’ burden was 44.1 ± 3.5 before and 39.4 ± 5.8 after intervention.Paired t-test showed a significant reduction in the total score of caregivers’ burden after intervention (4.7 ± 0.7) compared to before intervention(p = 0.001). 50% of caregivers had moderate and 50% had severe intensity of burden before intervention. After intervention, 16.7% of the caregivers had a high level of burden and 83.3% of them had moderate. The results indicated that 36.3% of caregivers had reduced burden scale.
Conclusion
Based on the results of this study, group training can reduce the caregivers’ burden scale of children with cancer.
کلیدواژه‌ها [English]
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