The Study of Common Respiratory Problems, Symptom Experiences, Symptom Management and Outcomes of Pre-School Children via their Caregivers

Khemmapat Kajornkittiya, Waraporn Sivadumrongpong and Kansirin Munhruk
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Khemmapat Kajornkittiya: Boromarajonani College of Nursing, Yala, Thailand
Waraporn Sivadumrongpong: Boromarajonani College of Nursing, Yala, Thailand
Kansirin Munhruk: Director of Hospital Health Promotion Satengnok, Yala, Thailand

International Journal of Health and Medical Sciences, 2016, vol. 2, issue 1, 13-19

Abstract: This research aimed to investigate 1) To study the symptom experience, symptom management and the outcomes of the common respiratory problems in pre-school children via their caregivers 2) To study the relation between the symptom experience, symptoms management, the outcomes with personal and health data.Caregivers caring for three to six year old pre-school children were recruited by simple random sampling from Tumbol Satengnok. 192 of them were selected to complete a set of questionnaire and another eight to be informants for semi-structure interviews. Descriptive statistics were applied for quantitative data analysisfrequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Pearson product moment was also used to determine the hypotheses. Qualitative data were classified to be categories using content analysis. The findings showed that the caregivers are general mothers who have experiences in taking care of the children having common respiratory symptoms. They knew the symptoms by assessing the changes of playing behaviors and physical happiness. The caregivers reported that most problems are caused by some of the childrens over playing activities. Therefore, they tried to manage the symptoms showed by reducing some of the activities, using traditional herbs, and making more caressing touch their children. For the outcomes of symptom management, 50 percent could be recovered without seeking another treatments. Symptom experience, symptom management and the outcomes of pre-school children caregivers were statistically significant differences, p

Keywords: Care Experience; Symptom Management; Respiratory Disease; Pre-school Children Caregivers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.20469/ijhms.2.30003-1

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