The effect of designed care plan on the duration and rate of pneumonia in infants in children medical center in Tehran

Introduction: Pneumonia is the most common fatal disease in infancy. Since most of factors which make infants susceptible to Pneumonia, arising from incorrect caring of infants in family, therefore the role of mother in prevention, recognition the sign and necessary caring in pneumonia is undeniable. The present research is carried out in order to determine the effects of designed care plan on the duration and rate of re-infection pneumonia in infants in children medical center in Tehran. Material and Methods: This research is a Quasi-experimental study. 66 infants in the age span between 1-12 months who suffered from Pneumonia together with their mothers were selected with the random allocation technique. They were assigned to two groups of experimental and control. Data collection tools include questionnaire, form for recording the duration and rate of pneumonia and observational - interviewing checklist. The designed care plan was taught both theoretically and practically with an eye to the strengths and weaknesses of the performance of mothers at home, while the control group had taken only ordinary care from their mothers, and mothers function were observed in three times before and after intervention. Every examining unit was followed up for 3 months after intervention. The data were analyzed with T Test and Chi-Square test. Results: According to the results, independent T-test indicated that the performing designed care plan can reduce the duration of pneumonia in infants in experimental group (P=0.0001).Chi Square test indicated that there wasn’t a significant difference between experimental and control group in the rate of re-infection pneumonia (P=0.163). Further, there was a clinical significant difference and researcher believes that with increase in the length of follow up there might be a statistically significant difference. Conclusion: According to our results, it can be claimed that using a designed care plan is an effective approach in reducing the duration and rate of re-infection pneumonia in infants in our samples. Moreover the results indicate that home-training is a good strategy in the betterment of mother’s caring behaviors.