Aydin Diler, Karaca Ciftci Esra, Karatas Hulya
Balikesir University, Bandirma School of Health, Pediatric Nursing Department, Balikesir.
J Clin Nurs. 2014 Feb;23(3-4):524-30. doi: 10.1111/jocn.12150. Epub 2013 May 28.
To detect traditional methods applied for the treatment of newborn jaundice by mothers in Turkey.
Traditional methods are generally used in our society. Instead of using medical services, people often use already-known traditional methods to treat the disease. In such cases, the prognosis of the disease generally becomes worse, the treatment period longer and healthcare costs higher, and more medicine is used.
A cross-sectional descriptive study.
The participants of this study were 229 mothers with newborn babies aged 0-28 days in one university hospital and one public children's hospital in Sanliurfa. The study was conducted between March and May 2012. In this research, the Beliefs and Traditional Methods of Mothers for Jaundice Questionnaire, which was formed by searching the relevant literature, is used as a data collection tool. The data are evaluated by percentage distributions.
Mothers apply conventional practices in cases of health problems such as jaundice, and application of these methods is important to mothers. Moreover, mothers reported applying hazardous conventional methods in cases of neonatal jaundice, such as cutting the area between the baby's eyebrows with a blade, cutting the back of the ear and the body and burning the body, which are not applied in different cultures.
Education regarding the effects of conventional methods being applied in families should be provided, and the results of this study should serve to guide further studies in assessing the effects of such education.
This approach can support beneficial practices involving individual care and prevent the negative health effects of hazardous practices.
检测土耳其母亲们用于治疗新生儿黄疸的传统方法。
传统方法在我们的社会中普遍使用。人们常常不使用医疗服务，而是采用已知的传统方法来治疗疾病。在这种情况下，疾病的预后通常会变差，治疗周期变长，医疗费用增加，且使用的药物更多。
一项横断面描述性研究。
本研究的参与者为来自尚勒乌尔法一家大学医院和一家公立儿童医院的229名有0至28日龄新生儿的母亲。研究于2012年3月至5月进行。在本研究中，通过检索相关文献编制而成的《母亲对黄疸的认知与传统方法问卷》被用作数据收集工具。数据通过百分比分布进行评估。
母亲们在黄疸等健康问题上采用传统做法，且这些方法的应用对母亲们很重要。此外，母亲们报告在新生儿黄疸病例中采用了危险的传统方法，比如用刀片割婴儿眉心处、割耳后和身体并灼烧身体，这些方法在不同文化中并不使用。
应提供关于家庭中应用传统方法的影响的教育，本研究结果应有助于指导进一步研究以评估此类教育的效果。
这种方法可以支持涉及个体护理的有益做法，并预防危险做法对健康产生的负面影响。
