Outcome of Parental Participation Promoting Program on Improvement of Care in Pediatric Patient with Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever at Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health

Authors

  • Phanita Panngern Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health

Keywords:

Dengue hemorrhagic fever, Parental participation promoting program, Ability of the parental

Abstract

Background: Dengue hemorrhagic fever is the leading cause of morbidity in the children, especially during the crisis stage or shock. The clinical may be change rapidly. So the nurses have to play an important role to encourage the parents about caring of their children. Objective: To study the outcome of parental participation promoting program on improvement of pediatric dengue hemorrhagic fever. Method: This was quasi experimental research. 40 of pediatric patients aged 6 12 years were enrolled into the study, 20 parents in experimental group (n = 20) and 20 parents in control group (n = 20). The experimental group was received the parental participation promoting program and the control group was received a routine care. The tools used in the experimental group were the parental participation promoting program, the demographic questionnaire, and the questionnaire of parental ability to care dengue hemorrhagic fever's pediatric patient. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.80 for the questionnaire of parental ability's knowledge. The reliability of the test KR 20 was 0.70. The statistic method for data analysis was descriptive, Wilcoxon Mann Whitney test. Result: The outcome revealed that after receiving the parental participation promoting program to care for pediatric patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever the mean score of parental ability to care the pediatric patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever of the experimental group was significantly higher than the control group (p < .05) and moreover the score of parental ability to care for pediatric patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever was significantly higher than before receiving the parental participation promoting program (p < .05). Conclusion: The results is indicated that the nurses and health care professionals should use the parental participation promoting program for pediatric patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever in order to enhance maternal knowledge, skill and confidence to care the pediatric patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever.

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18-03-2026

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Panngern P. Outcome of Parental Participation Promoting Program on Improvement of Care in Pediatric Patient with Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever at Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health. J DMS [internet]. 2026 Mar. 18 [cited 2026 Mar. 20];51(1):22-33. available from: https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JDMS/article/view/273819

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