Introduction: Nurses must be able to define parameters of their roles based on views of care recipients because awareness of the parents' perception of hospitalized children of caring behaviors is very important and it can produce significant results and provide useful information. This study aimed to explore mothers' perceptions of nurse caring behaviors.
Method: This study is a qualitative research with content analysis approach. Fourteen mothers of hospitalized children in pediatric ward of Yazd hospitals selected by purposive sampling and data were collected via semi-structured individual interviews. Data was analyzed by using qualitative content analysis.
Results: Data analyses led to emerge of the main theme "confidence building behaviors" that its sub-themes include: calming presence, mother absorption in caring, valuing, constructive communication.
Conclusion: Due to the main theme of the study “confidence building behaviors”, it seems paying attention to confidence attracting in caring behaviors and planning and implementation of caring plan based on this aim is necessary for pediatric nurses.
Abbaszadeh A, Salmani N, Rassouli M. Hospitalized children's mothers' perceptions of nursing care behaviors. IJNR 2014; 9 (2) :28-37 URL: http://ijnr.ir/article-1-1354-en.html