Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/7670
Title: Parental anxiety and affecting factors in acute paediatric blunt head injury
Authors: Serinken, Mustafa
Kocyigit, A.
Karcioglu, O.
Sengül, C.
Hatipoglu, C.
Elicabuk, H.
Keywords: anxiety
article
consultation
education
emergency ward
father
head injury
hospital admission
mother
neurosurgery
observational study
parent
parental anxiety
persuasive communication
priority journal
questionnaire
acute disease
adult
analysis of variance
child
educational status
emergency health service
etiology
female
hospitalized child
human
male
middle aged
preschool child
prospective study
psychology
risk factor
socioeconomics
statistics and numerical data
young adult
Acute Disease
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Anxiety
Child
Child, Hospitalized
Child, Preschool
Educational Status
Emergency Service, Hospital
Female
Head Injuries, Closed
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Parents
Prospective Studies
Questionnaires
Risk Factors
Socioeconomic Factors
Young Adult
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Abstract: Objective: This study is designed to investigate the factors affecting parental anxiety regarding their children with head injury in the emergency department (ED). Materials and methods: This prospective observational study enrolled all consecutive paediatric patients admitted to the university-based ED with the presenting chief complaint of paediatric blunt head injury (PBHI). The parents were asked to respond to the 10- item questionnaire during both presentation and discharge. Anxiety and persuasion scores of the parents were calculated and magnitudes of the decreases in anxiety and persuasion scores were analysed with respect to sociodemographic and clinical variables. Results: The study sample included 341 patients admitted to the ED. The anxiety and persuasion scores of mothers and fathers were not significantly different from each other on presentation while the extent of decrease in anxiety scores of mothers were significantly smaller than that of the fathers (p=0.003). The parents' education levels had significant impact on anxiety and persuasion scores recorded on presentation. The anxiety and persuasion scores were inversely related to education levels of the parents on presentation (p=0.002 and p=0.000, respectively). In addition, lower education levels were found to be associated with a greater decrease in anxiety and persuasion scores. Neurosurgical consultation also affected the magnitude of the decrease in anxiety and persuasion scores of the parents. The changes in the scores were affected negatively by the parents' age. Conclusions: Radiological investigations had no significant impact on the decrease in anxiety and persuasion scores of the parents by themselves, while neurosurgical consultation had significant impact on them. Emergency physicians should tailor their strategy to institute effective communication with the parents of children to cut down unnecessary investigations in PBHI.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/7670
https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2013-202492
ISSN: 1472-0205
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