Evaluation of the Efficiency of Mobile Application for Parents of Children With Epilepsy

Summary

Introduction: support to family and child related to epilepsy, controls or when they come for urgent reasons. Solutions must be found to ensure its continuity.

this support. The widespread use of the Internet today, e-health and health education is increasing day by day. Objective: The investigators research is planned to develop a mobile Epilepsy Training Program.

Parents with children diagnosed with epilepsy and assessing its effectiveness. Material and Method: The research is a randomized controlled experimental study.

An application was made to the Eskişehir Osmangazi University Clinical Research Ethics Committee and the ethics committee permission was obtained with the decision of 13.02.2020 dated 80558721-050.99-E.20230 and 2019-66 decision. Only volunteer participants will be included in the research. Its population study 3-6 years old children diagnosed with epilepsy Eskişehir City Hospital Child Neurology Outpatient Clinic between 01 September 2020 and 31 September 2021.

The sample of the research will consist of parents who meet the inclusion criteria.

research between these dates. Parents meeting research sample selection criteria The application was randomized as a control group according to the Parent Epilepsy Information Scale.

Application group; will use the mobile application the investigators prepared for the parent. Control group will consist of parents who follow the hospital's treatment protocol. The investigators study Completed with a total of 60 parents, 30 of whom are determined by power analysis group. Statistical analysis will be done with SPSS package program. Keywords: Child, Epilepsy, Parent Education, Mobile Application, Child Nurse

Conditions

• Child
• Epilepsy
• Education
• Mobile Application
• Nursing

Interventions

OTHER

implementation of mobile epilepsy training program

Mobile epilepsy training program will be applied to the application group for 3 months. The mobile epilepsy training program developed within the scope of the thesis will be introduced to the parents in the application group and the participants will be uploaded to their phones via computer, and the use of the program will be taught in practice. In addition, the participants in the application group will be informed that the mobile epilepsy training program is not open to everyone during the research process, only the application group can use it. After the work is completed, the mobile application control group will be installed on the phones of the parents via computer, their application will be taught and applied.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• DILEK SAYIK

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• DILEK SAYIK, PHD STUDENT · ESKİŞEHİR OSMANGAZİ UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

50 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-10-17

Primary Completion

2022-01-15

Completion

2022-01-15

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations