The Effect of Nursing Training Given to Parents of Asthmatic Children on Home Design Awareness and the Child's Quality of Life: A Quasi-experimental Study

Objective:This study aimed to examine how nursing training provided to parents of asthmatic children affects the child’s quality of life by increasing their awareness of home environment arrangements. Method:This study using a single-group pre-test-post-test design, was conducted in a training and research hospital in a province of Turkey. The study included 35 asthmatic children and their parents who were hospitalized in the pediatrics polyclinic and inpatient ward, during the pandemic period between March and July 2021. The data were collected with the “asthmatic child information form”, “pediatric asthma quality of life questionnaire”, and “home design awareness scale in children with asthma”. Frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, paired samples t-test, Wilcoxon sign test, independent t-test, and Mann-Whitney U test were used to evaluate the data. Results:The asthmatic children included in the study had sub-dimension and total score averages of the pediatric asthma quality of life questionnaire and the published home design awareness scale in children with asthma as pre-test-post-test measurements. The post-test score averages of all sub-terms improved after the trainings (p<0.05). Conclusion:It has been observed that with the nursing training given to the parents of asthmatic children, parents’ home design awareness increases and children’s quality of life improves by protecting them from indoor factors that trigger asthma attacks.