Care provided for parents to have infants with asthma acquire self-care skills

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to determine what care to provide for parents to have infants with asthma acquire self-care skills.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 pediatric allergy educator nurses and the data obtained from the interviews were analyzed by a qualitative descriptive research design.

Results: The analysis showed the following: ‘Explain to parents so that they can acquire the knowledge necessary for managing the asthma’, ‘Provide care for parents to understand the necessity of taking care of infants’, ‘Provide care with an awareness of the QOL of parents’, ‘Evaluate the development of infants and instruct parents in how to deal with infants’, ‘Give parents instructions on how to have infants acquire selfcare skills’, ‘Show parents practical methods by demonstrating the way nurses provide infants care’, ‘Assess the skills of parents while observing them caring for the infants’, ‘Provide care for parents and infants so that they can acquire the ways required to perform the necessary care’.

Discussion: The findings suggest that in the involvement with parents and infants, nurses need to provide care for parents, and that continued care may enable infants to acquire self-care skills as the skills of parents improve.