Investigating the Level of Anxiety of Mothers with Hospitalized Children and Its Relationship with Effective Nurses' Supportive Behaviors

Abstract

Objectives: Anxiety and fear of parents who have a sick child are common. This study was conducted to investigate mothers' anxiety levels with hospitalized sick children and their relationship with nurses' effective supportive behaviors in the pediatric ward of Imam Hassan Hospital in Bojnurd in 2019.

Design: cross-sectional descriptive study

Setting/Local Problem: pediatric Hospital in iran.

Participants: 178 mothers with sick children

 Intervention/Measurements: To collect information, two valid and reliable questionnaires, Spielberger's anxiety, and nurse's supportive behaviors, were used to collect information. Descriptive statistics and analytical statistics were used to analyze data in the SPSSS Ver 20 software.

  Results: In this study, the mean anxiety of the mothers participating in the study was 8.75±43.95, and the average score of the nurse's supportive behavior was 48.43 ±16.32.

The results showed that the total score of nurses' supportive behavior was inversely related to the score of obvious (r = - 0.194, p-value = 0.01) and hidden (r = -0.154, p-value = 0.04) anxiety.

  Conclusion: According to the obtained results, it's recommended bilateral educational planning in both areas of improving nurse's supportive behaviors and strategies to reduce maternal anxiety be pursued and implemented by nursing administrators using continuing education programs.