The Effect of Salutogenic Model-Based Care on Mothers of Children Suffering From Febrile Illness

Primary outcomes

1. COPE-Coping Attitudes Assessment Scale

   Time frame: 6 months

   COPE-Coping Attitudes Assessment Scale "Ways of Coping" was developed by Folkman and Lazarus in 1980 and COPE was developed by Carver, Scheier and Weintraub in 1989 (Folkman et al. 1980, Wegner et al. 1987). Coping Attitudes Assessment Scale is a self-report scale consisting of 60 questions and 15 subscales. Questions are answered with the options "I never do it" (1), "I occasionally do it" (2), "I do it moderately" (3), "I do it often" (4). Each of the subscales provides information about a different coping attitude. The higher the score a person gets from the subscales provides information about which coping attitude the person uses more.

2. Outcome Measure

   Time frame: 6 months

   The Sense of Integrity Scale The Sense of Integrity Scale used in the study was developed by Antonovsky (1987) to measure the abilities of individuals to maintain their health despite stress. The first version of the SOC consists of 29 items on a 7-point Likert-type scale. Eleven items on this scale relate to "understandability," eight items to "meaningfulness," and ten items to "manageability" (Geyer 1997).

   In 1987, Antonovsky revised the existing SOC scale and developed a shorter version consisting of 13 items. In this short version, five items measure understandability, four items to "meaningfulness," and the remaining four items to "manageability," all on a 7-point Likert-type scale. The scale is a self-report scale consisting of 13 items ranging from 1 to 7. It varies between 13 and 91 points.