جودة الرعاية المنزلية المقدمة لأطفال مرضى السكري وعلاقتها بديناميات التكيف الإيجابي للأسرة

الملخص EN

This research aims at identifying the relationship between the integrated home care provided to the diabetic children and the dynamics of positive family adjustment.

the study basic sample comprised 92 mothers of diabetic children.

they were selected intentionally from mothers of diabetic 3: 6 year-old children, from different social, economic and educational levels in the governorates of Cairo and Giza.

the research tools included; the form of general data for children and their mothers, scale of mothers’ awareness of integrated care provided to diabetic children and scale of familial adjustment dynamics.

the research used the descriptive analytical methodology.

the research concluded the following results: -the level of quality of home care provided to diabetic children was low in the research sample by 48%, as well as the level of positive family adjustment was low by 35%.

-there is a positive correlation of statistical significance at 0.01-0.05 function level between home care (nutrition-health-psychological and social-clothing) and the dynamics of positive family adjustment (family adjustment-social adjustment-economic adjustment).

-there is a statistically significant variation between the mean scores of mothers research basic sample in the total home integrated care provided to their diabetic children at 0.01-0.05 level of significance for the indicative variants, where differences in mother’s work were in favor of working mother, as for children’s ranking, differences were in favor of first child among his siblings, as for differences regarding marriage duration, they were in favor of longer period of marriage, and family’s small size, as for parents’ educational level, differences were in favor of higher educational level, and eventually, regarding family’s monthly income, differences were in favor of family’s higher monthly income, whereas, there were nodifferences of statistical significance according to (child’s gender-cause of diabetes).

-there is a statistically significant difference between members of the study sample in the level of positive adaptation dynamics of family according to the different demographic variables, where the level of positive adaptation increases among working mothers of children compared to non-working mothers, and in favor of longer period of marriage, parents’ higher educational level, family’s small size, higher family’s monthly income.

-the participation percentage of the study independent variables varied according to the quality of home care provided to diabetic child, where mother’s educational level had the greatest effect, then the duration of marriage, followed by mother’s work, then the number of family members according to the regression coefficient.

as for the participation percentage in the positive adjustment dynamics, mother’s educational level had the greatest effect, followed by father’s educational level, then duration of marriage, and eventually average monthly income, respectively.