Journal of North Khorasan

Background & Objectives: Epileptic child's mothers are faced with care problems such as low levels of management of self-efficacy care. These mothers have not received the same empowerment program yet. Aim of this study was to determine the effect of an epileptic child's care giving empowerment program on management of self-efficacy care in epileptic child's mothers.

Materials and Methods: This clinical trial study was conducted on 100 mothers of epileptic children who hospitalized in neurology department of Ghaem Hospital in 2013. Eligible mothers were selected via neurology de convenience sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control group. At first, management of self-efficacy care was evaluated using standard care giving self-efficacy scale in both experimental and control groups. In experimental group empowerment care was performed and the control group received no intervention. Forty-five days after the last session of program implementation, management of self-efficacy care was evaluated in both experimental and control groups again. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 11.5.

Results: The results showed that the two groups were the same considering population variables and the mean scores of management of care self-efficacy (p=0.84). Mann- Whitney tests showed significant differences in two groups after the intervention (p<0.001). Wilcoxon test also showed significant increase in the management of self-efficacy care of experimental group (p<0.001). Although, this score significantly decrease in control group (p<0.001).

Conclusion: Epileptic child's care giving empowerment program can be helpful in improving management of self-efficacy care of epileptic child's mothers.