Impact of Educational Empowerment Program on knowledge, Aggression, loneliness, and Anxiety of Mothers having Children with Cerebral Palsy

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Assistant professor of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia Universities, Egypt

2 Assistant professor of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt

3 Lecture of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia Universities, Egypt

Abstract

Background: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a permanent disorder of posture and movement resulting from
brain damage occurring in the baby or young child which could have negative impacts on social
behavior of mothers Objective to assess the impacts of educational empowerment program on
knowledge, aggression, loneliness, and anxiety of mothers having children with cerebral palsy.
Setting; the study conducted in the pediatric department, at Minia University Hospital for
Obstetrics and Pediatrics and General Hospital. Sample, Convenient samples of all available
mothers who have been selected for the program pre/post the intervention. Tools: five tools were
used for data collection. Tool (1) An interviewer questionnaire, (2) Buss-Perry Aggression
Questionnaire (BP-AQ), (3) UCLA Loneliness, (4) Scale Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and (5)
Empowerment scale. Results; the finding of the current study showed that the main age of mothers
was 38.2 ± 8.1years and noticeable improvement were detected in the mothers' level of knowledge,
aggression, loneliness, and anxiety after implementation of the program based empowerment model
compared to the pre assessment. So, the finding of this study concluded that after implementation
of the intervention program-based empowerment model, mothers who had children with CP their
level of aggression, loneliness and anxiety were alleviated. Recommendions: future researches are
needed to develop and refine interventions through program in-order to alleviate aggression,
loneliness and anxiety through empowering and engaging mothers in the caring plan of their
children with CP.

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Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Volume 13, Issue 3
September 2022
Pages 1564-1579

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