comparison of the effect of teach-back method and video clip training on the sense of coherence of mothers with children suffering from asthma

Aims: mothers whose children suffer from chronic diseases experience high levels of stress. promoting the sense of coherence can be a way to reduce the stress. the aim of this study was to compare the effect of teach-back method and video clip teaching on the sense of coherence of mothers with children suffering from asthma. materials & methods: in this randomized controlled trial, 75 eligible mothers with children suffering from asthma in yasuj in 2020 were selected by convenience sampling method and randomly assigned into three groups: video clip group, teach-back method group and control group. in video clip group, training was performed through a 15-minute clip in two sessions. in teach-back method group 8 training sessions were held. data were collected using the antonovsky’s sense of coherence scale-13 at baseline and one month after the intervention. data were analyzed using spss 21 by descriptive and inferential statistics. findings: before the intervention, there was no significant difference in the mean score of sense of coherence and its subscale in the three groups (p>0.05). one month after the intervention, there was a significant difference in the mean score of sense of coherence and its subscales between the two intervention groups with the control group (p=0.001). also, a significant difference was observed between the two intervention groups in the mean scores of the sense of coherence and comprehensibility (p<0.05).conclusion: both video clip and teach-back methods improves mothers’ sense of coherence, but teach-back method is more effective than video clip teaching.