LEARNING NEEDS OF ADOLESCENT MOTHERS WHEN IDENTIFYING FEVER AND ILLNESSES IN INFANTS LESS THAN TWELVE MONTHS OF AGE (RECTAL TEMPERATURE).
Contributors: University of Miami.
Published: 1996
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Educational Psychology.
Description: Using a nonequivalent control group quasi-experimental design, this dissertation described the relationships among age, ethnicity, social support, learning need, and learning ability of the adolescent mother relevant to identifying illnesses, elevated temperatures (fever), and taking rectal temperatures in infants less than twelve months of age; and was implemented to determine if an educational intervention enhanced an adolescent mother's ability to identify the need to take a temperature and the ability to accurately obtain a rectal temperature measurement using a mercury-in-glass thermometer. Study findings showed no relationships among an adolescent mother's age, ethnicity, social support, learning ability, or learning need. Other study findings showed that the educational intervention program used increased cognitive and psychomotor learning in the experimental group of adolescent mothers which could not be ascribed to the process of growth alone. Ramona Mercer's theoretical framework on Maternal Role Attainment (MRA) guided this study. MRA provided an organizational context for collection, analysis, application, and interpretation of the research data and allowed the researcher to examine the empirical validity of several assumptions and concepts of the theory.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-12, Section: B, page: 7458.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, 1996.

School code: 0125.