Home Healthcare Intervention for Mothers Having Children with Postoperative Cataract.

Shawky Abd-Elmonem, Nabila; Abd El-Gawad Abd El-Megeed, Hanaa; Mohamed Sobhy Elsayed, Doaa

doi:10.21608/jnsbu.2025.448904

Home Healthcare Intervention for Mothers Having Children with Postoperative Cataract.

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¹ Ph. D. student of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

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

10.21608/jnsbu.2025.448904

Abstract

Background: Cataract is a clouding of the normally clear lens of the eye or its capsule that obscures the passage of light through the lens to the retina of the eye. This study aimed to evaluate home healthcare intervention for mothers having children with postoperative cataract. Research design: A quasi-experimental research design. Setting: This study was conducted at the Ophthalmological Outpatient Clinics at Benha University Hospital, in Benha City, Qalyobia Governorate, Egypt. Subjects: A convenience sample of 102 mothers having children with postoperative cataract. Tools of data collection; Tool I): An structured interviewing questionnaire to assess mothers' socio-demographic characteristics, personal data of children with postoperative cataract, the past medical history of children having cataract, mothers' knowledge about cataract and home healthcare intervention and Tool II): a) An observational checklist to assess the mothers' home healthcare practices about cataract, b) Observing home environmental condition of children with postoperative cataract. Results: 3.9% of the studied mothers had good total knowledge about cataract at pre home healthcare intervention then this percentage increased to 66.7% at post home healthcare intervention, 89.2% of them had unsatisfactory total practices at pre home healthcare intervention then this percentage decreased to 17.6% at post implementation of home healthcare intervention. Conclusion: There was highly a statistically significant correlation between the studied mothers` total knowledge score and their total practices at post implementation of the home healthcare intervention. Recommendations: Continuous home healthcare intervention implementation for mothers having children with postoperative cataract to improve their knowledge and practices about postoperative cataract.

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