The effect of education based on empowerment model on knowledge, self-efficacy and practice of mothers with young girls for preventing of urinary tract infection

Urinary tract infectionis the most common bacterial infection among children. girls after the age of one are exposed to the urinary tract infection on the average four times more than boys. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of training based on individual empowerment model on mothers’ knowledge, self-efficacy and practice in prevention and early detect of the urinary tract infection in young kids. 104 mothers by means of random samples, participated in a quasi-experimental research in two groups consisting of test and control groups. the ways of gathering data consisted; demographic data, knowledge rate evaluation, self-efficacy and a check list of practice evaluation. the information was gathered from both groups after one month. the meetings were based importance, signs and prevention of the infection and recognition of infection that was made by mothers, themselves. data was evaluated using spss-16, krukal wallis test, chi-square and t-test. there was a significant difference among self-efficacy scores in test group (regarding using urine strips and methods of prevention), practice scores (about the correct method of collecting urine samples, using urine test strips for detection of infection and methods of prevention) and knowledge scores (on function of kidney, importance of urinary tract infection, symptoms of infection and prevention methods) had significant difference before and after the intervention. this study showed that the use of individual empowerment model could improve mother’s self-efficacy, practice and knowledge regarding primary and secondary prevention of their children urinary tract infection.