In-patient health care satisfaction and healthy life education consciousness of parents: A cross-sectional study

Sule C. Unal, Mukaddes D. Acar

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the level of inpatient health care satisfaction and healthy life education consciousness of parents.The study employed a descriptive, correlational, and cross-sectional study design. This study consisted of 211 parents whose children were monitored as inpatients in the pediatric clinic of the State Hospital. The data were collected with the Parent and Child Descriptive Information Form, PedsQL Healthcare Satisfaction Scale (PHSS), and Healthy Life Education Conscious Level Scale in Parents (HLECLSP). The average HLECLSP score of the parents in the study was 125.65±19.65, and the PHSS average score was 69.80±20.25, which was at a moderate level. It was determined that the mean scores of PHSS varied according to the status of the following current developments related to the health and hospitalization process, and these differences were statistically significant. It was determined that the mean scores of HLECLSP differed according to family type, education level, working status, parents’ job, and parents’ status of following current developments, and these differences were statistically significant. Parents' satisfaction with health care was determined to increase in parallel with their perception of healthy life education consciousness. It is especially recommended that health care environments be improved in terms of parents' emotional support needs, and updated healthy life awareness training programs for parents be included.

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