Application Of Family-centered Care And Research In Children With Asthma

ObjectiveTo explore family-centered care in non-severe asthma in children:Coordinating the relationship among children, families and nurses, recognitionand respect for the crucial role of the family in children with asthma,encouraging and supporting families’ involvement in children’s health caredecisions so that families can play a positive role in the healthy growth ofchildren, then it can create conditions for sustainable post-discharge care ofchildren, improve the quality of life in children with asthma, reduce thechildren’s recurrence rate of asthma and parental anxiety.MethodsWith the purpose of sampling, method of different asymmetrical design ofthe control group, children with asthma who were in the pediatric of the FirstAffiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University from February2011to June 2012as the control group were cared by routine care of pediatric respiratorydisease, and others from August2012to July2013as the experiment group werecared by family-centered care: Recognition and respect the wishes of childrenwith active participation in family care, coordination the good relations ofchildren, families and nurses. Family members are encouraged to activelyparticipate in decision-making in children’s care, the family played a positiverole in the health of children.Respect for family racial, cultural, socio-economic,ethical, etc, understanding the needs of children and families, to support andprovide to meet their needs. Recognize the power of the individual nature ofchildren and families, taking a personalized approach for different children withdifferent families, children are encouraged to participate in appropriate exercise,increase lung capacity, enhance physical fitness. Listening carefully to childrenand families’ opinions and suggestions made by and integrated into the care plan.Giving families the emotional and humanitarian support,using clinical nursingpath for children with asthma management, establishment of networkmanagement and hospitalization in children with asthma such as QQ group toshare the latest information in a timely manner.Then comparing the two groupsof children with asthma in general information, the average length of stay, theaverage hospital costs, disease recurrence rate, quality of life and their parents inthe education level, age composition, self-assessment anxiety aspects.Theresulting data were used SPSS16.0statistical software. General data usedconstituent ratio, Chi-Square test for descriptive statistics; measurement dataused Mean and standard deviation, T test, etc.ResultsThe differences statistically significant were in the average length of stay ofchildren, the average costs of hospitalization, disease recurrence rate, parents self-rating anxiety, quality of life between the two groups of children (P<0.05).while they were not statistically significant in gender, age, agecomposition, ethnicity, cost sources, residence sources and their parents in theeducation level, age composition (P＞0.05).ConclusionImplementation of the family-centered care can reduce the average lengthof stay of children, average hospital costs, disease recurrence rate and parents’anxiety, it can significantly improve the quality of life.