Effect of the providing systematic information towards maternal anxiety in neonatal jaundice treated with phototherapy at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Banpong Hospital

Abstract

The purposes of this quasi-experimental research; one group pre-posttest design was to study effects of the providing systematic information towards maternal anxiety in neonatal jaundice treated with phototherapy in the pediatric intensive care unit, Banpong Hospital. By applying theories of Berlo's model of communication in a systematic way of providing information, consisting of 1) the sender of the message was the researcher, 2) The message was the information and content about neonatal jaundice, 3) the information channels include face-to-face and the use of brochures and 4) the receivers include mothers who had infants with jaundice and received phototherapy. Sample was 30 mothers who had infants with jaundice and received phototherapy. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and t-test statistics. The results were as follows: 1)  Before receiving the systematic information the mother had a high level of anxiety ( = 3.16, SD= 0.18) after receiving the systematic information, the mother had moderate anxiety. ( = 2.27, SD= 0.31). 2)  Compared with average anxiety scores, it was found that after receiving systematic information the mothers had a statistically significantly lower level of anxiety scores than before receiving the systematic data at the .05 level. (t = 14.37, p = 0.000).