Effect of Guideline on Maternity Nurses Attitude about Umbilical Cord Blood Banking and Its Barriers
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Umbilical cord blood (cord blood) is a source of blood stem cells that can help save lives. Cord blood is increasingly valued as a resource for transplantation and cell therapy. Aim: Assess maternity nurses’ attitude about umbilical cord blood banking and its barrier and improve attitude about umbilical cord blood banking through health education given to nurses by providing guideline containing information about umbilical cord blood importance, advantages, disadvantages, types of banks, and diseases treated by cord blood Research Design: pre-posttest research design was utilized in this study. Material and Methods: This study was conducted at Minia university hospital & General Minia hospital. The study included 78 nurses. Tool in form of scale for measuring attitude by using 30 items rated on three points as usually (2), sometimes (1), and rarely (0). The items were reviewed by expert professor of psychology. Results: The main finding of the study were more than third of sample 38.5% in pretest have negative attitude about umbilical cord blood while 70.5% of sample in posttest have positive attitude. Conclusion: health education was effective in improving attitude about umbilical cord blood banking .recommendation: these finding indicate need to Adequate planned in-services related to cord blood collection and banking must established to develop nurses knowledge , attitude and practice
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Om el Hana Abdel Fadeel, Manal Farouk Moustafa, Azaa Mohammed Hafez
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