Effect of the Multimedia Supportive-Educative Nursing System Program on Maternal Care Behaviors for Newborns with Jaundice After Hospital Discharge
Keywords:
Newborns, Neonatal jaundice, Supportive-educative nursing system, Maternal care behaviorsAbstract
Neonatal jaundice is a major cause of infants being readmitted to the hospital after discharge. The aims of this quasi-experimental study were to compare scores for maternal care behaviors of newborns with jaundice and readmission rates for these newborns between a control and an experimental group on Day 3 and Day 7 after hospital discharge. Purposive sampling resulted in 50 pairs of mothers and their newborn with jaundice who were then randomly divided into the control and experimental groups, with 25 pairs in each group, for a duration of 8 days. The experimental group received the multimedia supportive-educative nursing system program whereas the control group received routine nursing care. Data were collected using a personal data record form and a questionnaire on maternal care behaviors for newborns with jaundice. All instruments underwent content validity and reliability testing. Analysis of data used descriptive statistics and the Mann-Whitney U test.
The results showed that the experimental group had statistically significant higher mean scores for maternal care behaviors than those in the control group on Day 3 and Day 7 after hospital discharge (p < .05). There was no statistically significant difference between the newborns in the experimental and the control groups in hospital readmission rates on Day 3 after hospital discharge (p > .05). Newborns in the experimental group had no cases of hospital readmission. On Day 7 after hospital discharge, newborns in both groups had no cases of readmission.
Findings of this study showed that the multimedia supportive-educative nursing system program was able to enhance maternal care behaviors for newborns with jaundice after hospital discharge with no cases of readmission. Related healthcare settings may use the program during routine care for mothers of newborns with jaundice.
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