Comparing the Effect of Simulation and Educational Film on Mothers’ Self-Efficacy in Bathing Preterm Infants: Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials

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Abstract: Background and Aim: Self-efficacy is an important and flexible psychological and impulsive factor for desired care of preterm infants which comprises one’s belief and confidence in parenting abilities. Since training plays an important part in increasing self-efficacy, this study aimed at comparing the effect of simulation and educational film methods on mothers’ self-efficacy in bathing preterm infants. Materials and Method: This study is a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial. Ninety first time mothers were chosen by Convenience sampling method and divided into three groups using simple random sampling. Self-efficacy questionnaires were completed by mothers before the intervention. In simulation group, infant bathing training went on 15 minutes for the group on moulage and in the educational film group the training went on for 15 minutes for the group by playing the video. Control group did not receive any training in this regard. Again, after 48 hours of intervention and a week after discharge mothers’ self-efficacy in all three groups was evaluated. In order to evaluate the change at different intervals analysis of variance test was conducted on repeated data. Findings: Results showed that mothers’ self-efficacy before and after the intervention have a significant increase in both simulation and educational film groups (P<0/001). Mothers’ self-efficacy score in simulation and educational film groups showed a significant difference with control group (P<0/001). But the Tukey’s test showed no significant difference between simulation and educational film group (P=0.159). Conclusion: Based on findings, both simulation and educational film helped in increasing mothers’ self-efficacy in bathing preterm infant. Thus training centers can adopt either way for training mothers according to their circumstances and equipment's so that mothers are better prepared for looking after their preterm infant.