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

Selcuk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cystic Fibrosis

Treatments: Behavioral: family empowerment program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03800459

2017-4242

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children aged 6-18 years old;
• Pulmonary functions Forced Expiratory Volume (FEV 1) over 40%
• being able to communicate in Turkish,
• voluntary parents in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• had mental disorders;
• receiving mechanical ventilation;
• Being in the process of lung transplantation;
• having a sister/brother who died due to CF
• Being in enteral or parenteral feeding;
• having a chronic disease other than CF.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental: Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental: Intervention group

Treatment:

Behavioral: family empowerment program

Control:no intervation group

No Intervention group

Description:

Control:no intervation group