A Review: Study of effect of educating the parents of children aged 1 to 5 years admitted to selected clinics in Shiraz City on the occurrence of medication errors in 2016 Download PDF

Introduction: educating parents by health care team is an important step in the provision of children’s health and reduction of medication errors occurrence. The present study aimed to determine the effect of educating the parents of children aged 1 to 5 years admitted to selected clinics in Shiraz City on the occurrence of medication errors. Method: the presented research is a clinical trial study conducted in three selected clinics in Shiraz City and the samples were selected by 2-stage cluster sampling method. 120 persons were selected from the parents of children aged 1 to 5 years by simple sampling method. The data was collected before and 4 days after intervention. SPSS V.16 software, descriptive statistics, pair t-test, independent t-test and Pearson’s correlation coefficient were used to analyze the data. Results: in the experimental group, significant difference was observed between the medication errors scores obtained before (70.6512.07) and 4 days after (90.436.86) intervention (p0.001) and also, there is significant difference between the experimental and control groups (79.639.15) 4 days after intervention (p0.001). Discussion and conclusion: the results showed that educating parents reduces the occurrence of medication errors so that after educational intervention, desired level of medication errors occurrence was reached. So, it is recommended to use parental education program in order to reduce the occurrence of medication errors.