The Effects of Seizure Care Training on Anxiety and Parents Care Burden in Children with Seizure Referred to Ali Asghar Children's Hospital

Seizure is one of the most common chronic neurological diseases. Occurrence of a chronic disease in family member is an important event for the whole family. Seizure is often associated with social, cognitive, emotional and physical challenges. It can have negative effects on family dynamics. Reduce the quality of life for both caregivers and the patient. Methods: First, through the necessary permits, the experimental and control groups are randomly selected. In each group, 29 people were selected. The training items included 3*30-minute sessions, performed in four consecutive weeks (one session per week). Parents were adjusted to the meeting time and the sessions were taught according to their circumstances, the researcher using face-to-face training talked to parents about childhood seizure, common signs and symptoms, diagnostic methods and treatment programs, according to the stage and condition of the child's illness. These parents were given basic training in this area. Results: Using paired t-test, we found that the level of anxiety before the intervention in the experimental and control groups was not significantly different from sig = 0.11. If we notice a significant difference in the level of anxiety after the intervention in the experimental and control groups sig = 0.000 and we find that the training has been effective. At the level of pre-intervention care burden with sig = 0.211 in the experimental and control groups, we find that there is no significant difference however after the intervention the probability value reaches 0.011 and makes a significant difference at this level and indicates that training has been effective. Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that after training caregivers 'anxiety in the intervention group has been decreased compared to the control group, information support of patients' families will help them to adopt better in encountering stressful situations. In fact, educating the patient and family will increase the level of information and will reduces the anxiety of the patient and family and reduces the problems in encounter the disease. Measures such as familiarizing caregivers to the hospital and illness information, stress management and patient care as well as follow-up care through Telephones and social networks can be effective. Patients' caregivers have an important role in supporting the patient, the need for attention and give importance to them by the health care system is important becau