The Effects of Ability Promoting Program for Caregivers of School-Age Children with Epilepsy Using CAI on Knowledge, Perceived Self-Efficacy, and Outcome Expectancy
Keywords:
caregiver of children with epilepsy, the ability promoting program, knowledge, self-efficacy, outcome expectancyAbstract
Abstract
This quasi-experimental research aimed to examine the effects of the ability promoting program for caregivers of school-age children with epilepsy using computer assisted instruction. A convenience sampling with inclusion criteria was used to recruited caregivers of children with epilepsy aged 6-12 years, who attended at the pediatric outpatient department of tertiary care hospitals in Chon Buri province. There were 47 caregivers in the control group receiving regular cares, while there were 48 caregivers in the experimental group receiving the ability promoting program and regular cares. Research instruments included a demographic record form, the knowledge about epilepsy questionnaire, the epilepsy self-efficacy’s scale, and the outcome expectancy’s scale. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U, and Wilcoxon signed ranks tests.
The results revealed that after completion of the intervention, the experimental group had significantly higher scores of knowledge about epilepsy, perceived epilepsy self-efficacy, outcome expectancy related to the treatment, and outcome expectancy related to epilepsy management than those in the control group (Z = -6.482, p<.05, Z = -3.847, p<.05, Z = -2.656, p<.05, Z = -2.549, p<.05, respectively). These findings suggest that the ability promoting program for caregivers of children with epilepsy can enhance knowledge, perceived self-efficacy, and outcome of care in children with epilepsy, leading to appropriate health care behaviors of children with epilepsy.
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