The Effect of a Family-Centered Care Approach on Infants Receiving High-Flow Nasal Oxygen Therapy

The population of the study consisted of babies and their mothers who were receiving high-flow nasal oxygen therapy in the baby wards of Ankara Etlik City Hospital between December 2024 and March 2025.After receiving written consents with the volunteer consent form from the mothers who agreed to participate in the study, the volunteers were divided into intervention and control groups using the "computerized randomization method" (www.randomizer.org ). Patients were distributed to two groups according to the randomization list and all groups were informed about how to fill out follow-up forms. In both groups, the data in the section on introductory characteristics of the mother and baby in the first part of the Mother and Baby Introductory Information Form were filled in. A pre-test was administered with the family-centered care scale. The data related to the measurements of life signs (body temperature, pulse, respiration, oxygen saturation and blood pressure) contained in the introductory characteristics section of the baby were obtained from the patient's file and recorded. The intervention group received the "Family-Centered Care Program" and the control group received the standard care program of the clinic.The families in the intervention group were given training and information about family-centered care and were given an educational booklet that had been prepared. Before discharge, a post-test was conducted on both groups using the family-centered care scale.

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older,
• Literate,
• Agreeing to participate in the study,
• Oriented to person, place, and time,
• No visual (except for those with improved vision using visual aids) or auditory communication difficulties (except for those with improved hearing using hearing aids) that would prevent them from understanding and expressing the information provided,
• No speech impairments/communication problems,
• Mothers of infants aged 28 days to 2 years, receiving high-flow oxygen therapy due to a lower respiratory tract infection, and without any chronic disease.

Exclusion criteria

• Mothers who did not speak or read Turkish,
• who were participating in a different study conducted at the clinic, were not included in the study.