NCT03800459

Effect of a Family Empowerment Program on Coping, Problem Solving in Parents, and Quality of Life in Children With Cystic Fibrosis

Effect of a Family Empowerment Program on Coping With Stress, Problem Solving in Parents, and Quality of Life in Children With Cystic Fibrosis: Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Selcuk University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Parents of children with cystic fibrosis (CF) experience high levels of stress and problems. Family empowerment interventions provide important support for many patients with CF and their families. However,there is a lack of research exploring the effects of such empowerment programs on coping, and Problem Solving among parents, and Quality of Life in Children with CF. The present study aimed to assess the effect of a family empowerment program-based nursing intervention on parents coping with stress and problem solving, and quality of life children with CF.

Detailed description

Parents of children with cystic fibrosis (CF) experience high levels of stress and problems. Family empowerment interventions provide important support for many patients with CF and their families. However,there is a lack of research exploring the effects of such empowerment programs on coping, and Problem Solving among parents, and Quality of Life in Children with CF. The present study aimed to assess the effect of a family empowerment program-based nursing intervention on parents coping with stress and problem solving, and quality of life children with CF. A single-blinded, parallel group pretest and posttest design randomized controlled trial was used. Data were collected over 5 months (January 2017-May 2017) from 48 participants in a medical faculty hospital. They were randomly assigned to the experimental (n = 24) and control (n = 24) groups. Nursing interventions applied to the experimental group for ten weeks with the intent of strengthening families consist of; providing individualized training and booklet concerning disease management and providing phone calls and consultancy services for the purpose of reinforcing the training and increasing the motivation. A routine polyclinic follow-up was applied to the control group. Problem Solving Inventory (PSI), Scale of Ways of Coping with Stress (SWCS), and The Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire-Revised scale (CFQ-R) were used reliable and valid instruments. The data were evaluated using the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test in evaluating dependent groups and the Mann-Whitney U test in independent groups.

Conditions

• Cystic Fibrosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	family empowerment program	The empowerment program-nursing interventions were given in 6 sessions in the experimental group Session 1: Individualized training: General information about CF, respiratory system involvement and treatment process, airway cleaning in CF, drug applications (45-50 min) Session 2:Phone calls: Motivational and reminder interviews were carried out in order to reinforce the content of the first individual training (15 min).Session 3:Phone calls:Motivational and reminder interviews were carried out in order to reinforce the content of the first individual training (15 min) Session 4:Individualized training:protection from infections, nutrition and psychosocial support (45 min) Session 5:Phone calls: Motivational and reminder interviews were carried out in order to reinforce the content of the second individual training. (10 min) Session 6:Phone calls: Motivational and reminder interviews were carried out in order to reinforce the content of the second individual training. (10 min)

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-12-14
• Primary completion: 2017-02-26
• Completion: 2017-06-02
• First posted: 2019-01-11
• Last updated: 2019-01-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)