Educational video as a training strategy for caregivers of children with cleft lip and palate during postoperative period after lip and palate repair

Author(s)

Ana Paula Ribeiro Razera

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Bauru.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru (FOB/SDB)
• Defense date: 2017-01-16

Examining board members

Maria de Lourdes Merighi Tabaquim; Jeniffer de Cassia Rillo Dutka; Wilza Carla Spiri; Armando dos Santos Trettene; Tania Gracy Martins do Valle

• Advisor: Maria de Lourdes Merighi Tabaquim; Cleide Carolina da Silva Demoro Mondini

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the information achieved by informal caregivers of children with cleft lip and palate about the postoperative care after lip and palate repair, by the utilization of an educational video. Method: randomized clinical study, conducted on 80 caregivers of children with isolated cleft lip and palate submitted to lip and/or palate repair surgeries, comprising two groups, study (G1) and control (G2). Data were collected during hospitalization of children at three stages, namely pre-training, training and post-training. At pre-training, a screening questionnaire was applied containing questions related to sample characterization (G1 and G2) and identification of information on the postoperative care after lip and palate repair of the participants. Then, the following instruments were applied: Stress Symptoms Inventory for Adults, Beck Depression Inventory, Nonverbal Intelligence Test and Bourden Interview Scale, for both groups, to identify the behavioral profile of caregivers. On the second stage, the caregivers received training with information about the care required by the child during the postoperative period. Individuals in G1 were trained by a constructed and validated educational video about the postoperative care after primary lip and palate repair surgeries, individually exhibited to the caregivers. Individuals in G2 received routine postoperative counseling by the nursing staff from the hospital. At post-training, the screening questionnaire addressing the information provided was again applied to both groups, aiming to identify the pattern of information achieved about the postoperative care and to compare the results. Statistical analysis was performed by the chi-square, Fishers exact, Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon and McNemar tests, all at a significance level of 5%. Results: both groups exhibited improved information about the postoperative care at post-training. However, G1 exhibited higher level of information about the postoperative care after lip and palate repair by utilization of the educational video, compared to G2. Conclusion: considering the post-training achievements in the pattern of information for the study group, compared to the control group, the educational video constructed and validated for the present study presented to be an educational tool that enhanced the knowledge about the management of postoperative care after lip and palate repair. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/18085-0 - Design and behavior of caregivers of children with cleft lip and palate on nursing care in the postoperative period of primary surgeries.
• Grantee: Ana Paula Ribeiro Razera
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate