Assessment of family care givers’ knowledge and practice of caring for children with congenital heart disease at the cardiac center Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Aga Fekadu(PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hailu Aklil | |
| dc.contributor.author | Berihu Feben | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-02T11:01:31Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-06T08:51:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-02T11:01:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-06T08:51:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common birth anomalies. Around the world it has been estimated that children’s have one among 100 congenital deficits due to the chromosomal abnormalities. In the last few years, the emergence of new technologies and advanced therapy the children born with CHD can make it through the adult hood. During the journey of treating children with CHD the role of family caregivers is significant. However, little is known about the family caregiver’s knowledge and self-reported practice of caring for children with CHD. Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the family caregiver’s knowledge and selfreported practice of caring for children with congenital heart disease at cardiac center Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Methods: The study was performed under hospital based descriptive cross-sectional study. The data was collected from families of children with CHD at the cardiac center outpatient department through written questioner. The questioner was administered by two trained nurses who work in the outpatient department of the cardiac center. The returned questionnaire was checked for completeness, cleaned manually and entered in to EPI INFO statistical software and then transferred to SPSS windows version 25 for further analysis. Results: A total of 377 family caregivers with a response rate of 96.91% were participated in this study from which (45.1%) of the respondents had good knowledge towards care for child with CHD and (44.3%) had good practice toward scare for CHD. There was a significant relationship between family caregiver’s knowledge and educational status [AOR=0.322, 95%CI.0.186, 0.557] and living area [AOR=19.274, 95% CI. 6.535, 56.84]. family caregiver’s knowledge towards CHD [AOR=1.11, 95% CI 7.240, 0.002.], frequency of feeding [AOR=0.093,95%CI. 0.02, 0.53] and living area [AOR= 57.3, 95%CI 1.07, 3048.8] were significantly associated with self-reported practice towards care for child with CHD at outpatient department. The statistical significance level was declared at p-value <0.05. Conclusion & Recommendation: The results from this study showed that family caregivers had poor knowledge towards CHD and poor self-reported practice towards care for child with CHD. Lack of guide line for proper health education and resources are contributing factors. Therefore, the hospital’s administrative and supportive organizations would better to provide training regarding proper health education towards care for child with CHD and the disease condition. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/28472 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Congenital heart disease, knowledge, family caregivers, self- reported practice | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of family care givers’ knowledge and practice of caring for children with congenital heart disease at the cardiac center Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |