Özet:

This study was conducted to determine the level of support provided by nurses to mothers whose children are in the intensive care unit. The sample of the cross-sectional-descriptive study consisted of mothers (n=250) whose children were hospitalized in the intensive care unit of a training and research hospital. The data were collected with the 'Child-Parent Information Form' and the 'Nurse-Parent Support Scale (NPST)', and the evaluation was made using the computerized descriptive statistics independent t-test and Anova (Posthoc Tukey) tests. In the study, the mean total score of the mothers' NPST was 87.26±14.23, and it was determined that the level of support given by the nurses to the mothers was high, but the nurse support scores of the mothers who could not get information about their child's illness and did not find the information sufficient were low (p<0.05). In addition, it was found that there was nostatistically significant difference between the children's age, gender, the number of days of hospitalization in the intensive care unit, maternal age, employment status, and education level variables, and the mothers' total and sub-dimension scores on NPST (p>0.05). It is recommended that pediatric nurses determine the level of support of mothers in this process, inform and support them about the treatment process of their child's disease and the interventions applied.

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