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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 |
Appears in Collections: | PubMed İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / PubMed Indexed Publications Collection Scopus İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / Scopus Indexed Publications Collection Tıp Fakültesi Koleksiyonu WoS İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / WoS Indexed Publications Collection |
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