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Anatomy and physiology of brainOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Mothers play a crucial role in supporting their children with cerebral palsy and in providing care that influence children’s health. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effect of an educational program about cerebral palsy on mothers’ care and their adaptation. Design: A quasi-experimental one-group (pre-post-follow up) research design was used in conducting this study. Subjects: A consecutive sampling consisted of 50 mothers that were attending to physiotherapy clinic at genetic counseling center in Port Said city regardless their characteristics and had children with cerebral palsy diagnosed at least from six months. Tools of data collection: The data was collected by self-administer questionnaire, Coping Health Inventory for Parents (CHIP), General Functioning (GF) scale of the Family Assessment Device (FAD). Results: Minority (12%) of the studied mothers had satisfactory total score of knowledge in pre intervention phase and increased to 94% in post intervention phase, while declined to 54% at follow up phase. Also improvement in the overall practices of the studied mothers throughout the program phases from 18% of them had adequate overall reported practices in pre intervention phase to 94% in post intervention phase and declined to 80% at follow up phase. There was an observed improvement in mean± SD of total coping strategies 53.16±9.5 post program implementation compared with 27.8±1.3 at pre-program and 46.9±6.7 at follow up phase. Conclusion: There was improvement of mothers’ total score of knowledge and their overall reported practices after program implementation. Also There was improvement of mothers’ total coping strategies and their adaptation after program implementation.