Assessment need of nurses knowledge about nutrition for children with leukemia at hematology pediatric ward in medical city
Keywords:
knowledge, leukemia, nurses, nutritionAbstract
Background: Leukemia in childhood is the second leading cause of death among children that stated in the bone marrow and affected for producing stem cells. The nurse's and health care provider role is to help children and their families to accept the disease based on their education and its treatment.Objectives: The study aim to assess the nurses' knowledge towards nutrition and identify the relationship between demographic characteristics of the nurses with the knowledge (such as age, sex, educational level, marital status and years of experience). Research Methodology: descriptive study dealt with object-analytical sample randomly from the 40 nurses working in the Hematology Center pediatric ward at Medical City. The questionnaire was designed to gather information, and conducted a study to test a pilot questionnaire questions period (18th April/2021 to 10th July/ 2021). Data was analyzed by applying descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) and deductive statistics (Chi-Square test) SPSS version (20). Results: The study has shown that female participants in the study sample more than males, and the percentage (57.5%) and over the sample aged more than 34 years, and the proportion (37.5%).
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