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Abstract
Background: Infantile colic is a condition in which an infant shows signs of distress and parents especially mothers not know what the cause of the infant’s crying and how to deal with it so it is very important to enhance mothers’ knowledge and practices related to infantile colic to enhance quality of life of both family and their infants. Aim of the Study: This study aimed to evaluate effect of educational program for mothers about care of their infants with infantile colic. Design: A quasi-experimental research design was utilized in this study. Setting: the study was conducted at the Pediatric Emergency Department and Outpatient Clinics (Pediatric General Clinic) affiliated to Mansoura University Children’s Hospital (MUCH). Subjects: A purposive sample of (246) mothers who attended the previously mentioned settings with their infants. Tool: one tool contains four parts used: - (I): characteristics of the studied sample, (II): Medical and nutritional history, (III): Mothers’ knowledge about care of infantile colic, and (IV): Mothers’ reported practice about care of infantile colic. Results: revealed that a less than one quarter of the studied mothers had good knowledge at the pre-educational program and improved to be less than two thirds at post- educational program, Also, about three-quarters of them had unsatisfactory reported practices at the pre- educational program that decreased to be minority less than one quarter of them had unsatisfactory reported practices at the post- educational program. Conclusion: The result showed that there was highly statistically significant positive correlation between the studied mothers’ total knowledge and total reported practices level at the post educational program. Recommendations: Keep on breastfeeding during infantile colic episodes and provide continuous educational programs to improve mothers’ knowledge and practices regarding the care of their infants with infantile colic.