The Efficacy of Caring Swanson Theory-based Parental Convention on Special Needs Children

Abstract

Caring Swanson Theory is greatly used to offer comfort in case of client’s caring process to pass through the transition period by accommodating the client’s necessities. This research aims for applying intervention towards parents’ role in caring for children with attention deficit disorder by implementing SCT module in parental convention at a confined space during four-time sessions. The parental convention or group discussion were carried out both virtually and directly. During the convention, the developments of caring process were discussed. The control group was given the space to talk about their problem while the experimental group was intervened. The research was quasi-experimental study using pre-test and post-test control group design. The population of the research included parents of children with attention deficit disorder in Malang City area, East Java, Indonesia who took the role as the caregivers. In collecting the data, SCT module and questionnaire were used as the research instruments. The parents of children with attention deficit disorder filled the questionnaire before and after the parental convention sessions. The findings indicated that the average answers of the parents in experimental group were categorized as strongly agree (76.07). The responses concluded that parents were more composed in managing the caring process in daily basis as they acquired new insight on caring their children with attention deficit disorder