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Mahboobeh Namnabati1, Reza Sotoudeh2, Niloofar Bahrami3
1Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Insights
Parents showed a positive attitude towards an infant home-based care program, indicating it can help manage challenges in infant healthcare at home. This study was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Area of Science:
- Pediatrics
- Public Health
- Family Medicine
Background:
- Home-based infant care presents significant challenges for families.
- Policymakers introduced a home-based care program to extend infant healthcare services.
- Parental attitudes towards this program were assessed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine parental attitudes towards a newly implemented infant home-based care program.
- To identify factors influencing family attitudes regarding infant home care.
- To evaluate the program's potential to alleviate parental challenges in infant care.
Main Methods:
- A descriptive-analytical, cross-sectional study involving 385 parents of infants under two months old.
- Stratified random sampling was used in health centers in Isfahan, Iran.
- Data collected via a 30-item researcher-made Likert questionnaire assessing individual-cultural, educational-supportive, and environmental domains.
Main Results:
- Families demonstrated a positive overall attitude towards the infant home-based care program (mean score 104.12 ± 11.69).
- The highest scores were observed in the individual-cultural (36.95 ± 4.44), educational-supportive (34.88 ± 5.04), and environmental (32.29 ± 3.98) domains.
- Significant relationships were found between family attitude scores and parental age, number of children, education level, and place of care (P < .05).
Conclusions:
- Parental attitudes towards the infant home-based care program are predominantly positive.
- The program shows promise in reducing the challenges faced by parents in managing infant healthcare at home.
- Further implementation and support of this program are recommended to enhance infant care management within families.
Abstract:
Infant's health care management at home was an important challenge for the families. Therefore, the policymakers provided a program as an extension to the care plan to implement at home and examine families' attitudes toward the program. Examination of the parents' attitude was a coincidence with COVID-19 pandemic in this study, a descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study that was conducted on 385 parents with infants less than 2 months old in the health centers of Isfahan-Iran. The samples were selected by stratified random sampling method. Data gathering was done through a researcher-made Likert questionnaire, which had 30 items and 3 domains including individual-cultural, educational-supportive, and environmental domains. The data were analyzed through the descriptive and analytical statistic. The results of the study revealed a mean score of 104.12 ± 11.69 on family attitude and their positive view toward the infant home-based care program. Also, the highest score was related to the individual-cultural domain 36.95 ± 4.44, educational-supportive 34.88 ± 5.04 and environmental domains 32.29 ± 3.98, respectively. In addition, a significant relationship was found between the mean score of the family attitude and age, the number of children, education, and place of care (P < .05). Based on the results of the study, the attitude of family toward infant home-based care is positive, and the challenges of parents in caring their infants at home can be reduced as the program is implemented.
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