Effect of Upgrading Mothers' Awareness Regarding Cardiovascular Diseases on their self-efficacy to promote their children life style

Abstract

Background:The progressive atherosclerotic process begins in childhood and develops gradually under the influence of conventional risk factors such as obesity and low levels of physical activity so continuous educational program for their caregivers is important. Aim: to evaluate the effect of upgrading mothers' awareness regarding cardiovascular diseases on their self-efficacy to promote their children life style. Setting: The study was conducted at the pediatric medical department and pediatric outpatient clinic affiliated to Tanta University Hospital, Tanta city, Egypt. Sample: a convenient sample of 60 mothers of school age children who attended the previously mentioned settings. Tools: two tools for data collection Were used: Tool I Structured interview questionnaire, it consisted of three parts. Socio-demographic data of the studied mothers, past and present family history for cardiovascular, diseases. The third part is mothers' knowledge about cardiovascular diseases. Tool II: Mothers' self-efficacy questionnaire. Results: the present study found that 91.67% of mothers had unsatisfactory practices level regarding their children life style before the educational intervention while 80% had satisfactory practices immediately after the educational intervention. Conclusion: there was a significant improvement in mothers' practices regarding their school age children life style Recommendations: educational programs for care giver should be conducted periodically and regularly regarding cardiovascular diseases risk factors among children.

Effect of implementing Family Empowerment Model on the Quality of Life and SelfEfficacy of Mothers of Children with Systematic Lupus Erythema

“…Meanwhile, this result similar to Hegazy, and Dawood. (2021) (42) , who studied " effect of upgrading mothers' awareness regarding cardiovascular diseases on their self-efficacy to promote their children life style" and found that, the mothers had elevated self-efficacy mean scores immediately after the educational intervention 235.167±29.656 compared to before program. There were statistically significant differences regarding the total means scores of the mothers' self-efficacy before, immediately after and one month after application of the educational intervention (p<0.001).…”