Relationship Between Seizures in Children with Maternal Anxious Levels at Pediatrics Intensive Care Unit

Abstract

Introduction: Seizure is an emergency condition that makes mother or the care taker being anxious. The anxious of parents frequently denied where as psychological problems both acute and chronic could be happened intervention as a holistic approach to the patient and her family. Objective: To analize the correlation between seizure in children hospitalization in Pediatrics Intensive Care Unit (PICU) with the maternal anxious levels. Methods: A cross-sectional study was done and the data were collected from the 29-day-old to 18 years children treated in PICU of Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital, Makassar from April through September 2014. Total of samples comprised 133 children were devided into two groups: 58 children in the seizure group and 75 other in the not seizure group. The maternals anxious levels are based on the HARS (Hamilton anxious rating scale) score. Results: The study revealed there is a significant correlation between the seizure in children with maternal anxious levels as shown by the Odds Ratio (OR) value of 6.286 CI95% = 2.912 – 13.569 with p value of 0.000 (p <0.01), and the mean, median, maximum and minimum values of HARS score were higher in seizure group: the values being 31.5: 26.02, 30.5: 26, and 20–50: 18–24 respectively with p= 0.000 (p<0.01). Conclusion: Severe anxious frequency evidences in maternals with children who had seizure were higher than in children without seizure, either of the HARS score of maternals.