Mothers’ Care for Their Children with Minor Surgeries.

Metwally Hussein, Mona; Abd El-Gawad Abd El-Megeed, Hanaa; Fathy Mohy El-Deen, Hedya; Gamal El-Dein Ibrahim, Shimaa

doi:10.21608/jnsbu.2025.444384

Mothers’ Care for Their Children with Minor Surgeries.

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¹ Infection Control Practitioner at Dkahllia Directorate Medical Affairs

² Professor of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing - Benha University, Egypt.

³ Assistant Professor of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing - Benha University, Egypt.

10.21608/jnsbu.2025.444384

Abstract

Background: Mothers' care is very important for children with minor surgeries. So, mothers need to understand the condition of their children and learn about the care of children with minor surgeries, which are procedures that allow children to return home on the same day, and complications are also very rare following minor surgeries. Aim: To evaluate mothers’ care of their children with minor surgeries. Design: Descriptive research design. Setting: Surgical Out-Patient Clinic, Specialized Pediatric Hospital in Benha City. Sampling: A simple random sample of 218 mothers and their children. Tool: One tool was used in this study. Structured interviewing questionnaire to assess personal characteristics of mothers, personal characteristics of children, current medical history of children, mothers' knowledge about minor surgeries and reported practices about postoperative care towards their children. Results: 47. 7% of the studied mothers aged between 30 and 40 years old, 51.8% of the studied children aged less than five years and 78.9% of them were males. 51.1% of the studied children with minor surgeries had chest allergies and 90.9% had other previous admissions of minor surgeries. 60% of studied children had follow up after one week post discharge from minor surgeries. Also 10.5% had inguinal hernia (bilateral) and 9.1% had umbilical hernia also circumcision. 46.8% of studied mothers had an average knowledge level about minor surgeries. 84.90% of the studied mothers had satisfactory total reported practice levels regarding minor surgeries. Conclusion: There was a approximately two fifths of the studied mothers had average total knowledge and the majority of them had satisfactory total reported practice levels regarding minor surgeries, and there was a positive highly statistically significant correlation between the total knowledge score and total reported practice score of mothers regarding minor surgeries (p=<0.001). Recommendation: Develop and implement health educational program to increase mothers' knowledge and practices about care for their children with minor surgeries.

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