ผลของโปรแกรมระบบการพยาบาลแบบสนับสนุนและให้ความรู้ด้วยสื่อมัลติมีเดียต่อพฤติกรรมการดูแลของมารดาสำหรับทารกแรกเกิดที่มีภาวะตัวเหลืองหลังจำหน่ายออกจากโรงพยาบาล

Abstract

Neonatal jaundice is a major cause of infants being readmitted to the hospital after discharge. The aims of this quasi-experimental study were to compare the care behavior of mothers of newborns with jaundice and the readmission rate of newborns with jaundice between a control and an experimental group on day 3 and day 7 after discharge. Fifty mothers of newborns with jaundice were divided into the control or experimental group, each with 25 pairs. The experimental group received the multimedia supportive-educative nursing system program whereas the control group received routine nursing care. A personal data record form and the questionnaire on care behavior of mothers of newborns with jaundice were used to collect data which were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Mann-Whitney U test. The results found that mothers in the experimental group had higher mean scores of care behavior than those in the control group (p < .05). There was also no significant difference in hospital readmission rates of newborns on the third day after discharge from the hospital between the experimental and control groups (p >.05). Furthermore, the experimental group did not have any cases of hospital readmission. The results show that the multimedia supportive-educative nursing system program could promote maternal care behaviors for newborns with jaundice after hospital discharge, leading to prevention of hospital readmission.