Practices and Believes of Mothers Toward Treatment of Newborns Jaundice | ||
| kufa Journal for Nursing sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 3, December 2013, Pages 54-62 | ||
| Author | ||
| Afifa Radha Aziz | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Aim: To assess mother's practice and believes toward treatment of newborns jaundice and to found association between practices and believes of mothers with demographic characteristics. Methodology: Descriptive design study, purposive samples deals (200) mothers who attending to the Babylon maternal and child hospital. Questionnaire was used to collect the data from the period of 2 October 2011 to 15 March 2012. Data were analyzed by used descriptive and inferential statistical (percentage, frequency, T.test and chi –square). Results: the study presented that (100%) of mothers used Bendy yellow, the results shows that (100%) of mothers avoid the baby to wear yellows cloths. Also result shows that there are significant relationship between the practices and believes of mothers with age and level of education. Conclusion: There were association between age of mothers with their practices and believes. There is no significant association between mothers' practice and believes with treatment of newborn jaundice Recommendation: The research recommended health education programmer by health visitors for mothers and different mass media for mothers, family and community. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| practices; Believes; mothers; Treatment; newborns jaundice | ||
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