The effect of implementing family-centered empowerment model on the empowerment of mothers of children with hydrocephalus.

Hydrocephalus, due to the disabilities it causes for children, also causes many problems for their mothers. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of implementing a family-centered empowerment model on the empowerment of mothers of children with hydrocephalus.

In this quasi-experimental study, 60 mothers of children with hydrocephalus participated and were randomly divided into intervention and control groups. A demographic questionnaire, a researcher-made family-centered empowerment tool, was used to collect data. Questionnaires were completed by the participants before the intervention. Then, for the intervention group, a family-centered empowerment model was implemented with four steps of perceived threat (perceived sensitivity and perceived severity), self-efficacy, self-esteem and evaluation in 5 sessions. One week after the intervention, the competency questionnaire was completed by the samples in the intervention group and simultaneously in the control group.

The mean score (standard deviation) of the total ability of mothers of children with hydrocephalus before and after the implementation of the family-centered empowerment model was 26.62± (4.08) and 32.87± (5.09), respectively, which had a significant increase (p <0.05) But there was no significant difference in the control group.

Implementing a family-centered empowerment model improves the empowerment of mothers of children with hydrocephalus.