EFFECTS OF AEROSOL SPRAY COOPERATION PROMOTING PROGRAM ON AEROSOL SPRAY COOPERATION OF PRESCHOOL PATIENTS WITH ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTION

Abstract

This quasi-experimental research was aimed to study the effects of aerosol spray cooperation promoting program on aerosol spray cooperation of preschool patients with acute respiratory infection. Preschool patients with acute respiratory infection were randomly assigned to the control and treatment group. Twenty preschool patients in the treatment group received the aerosol spray cooperation promoting program which included relationship building, concrete objective information providing through verbal and cartoon animation, and supervising mask holding and the preschool patients’ breath, while 16 preschool patients in control group received routine nursing. Data were collected by the aerosol spray co-operation behaviors observation scale, developed by the researchers. Content validity index was .88. and inter-rater reliability coefficient was .89. Data were analyzed by Two-way Repeated Measures ANOVA. It was found that all 6 aerosol spray preschool patients with acute respiratory infection who received the aerosol spray cooperation promoting program had higher scores of aerosol spray cooperation behavior than the children who received routine nursing, at the statistical significance level of .05