Knowledge and practice of family caregiver for clients using vacuum wound therapy for infected limb surgical wound / Soheir Aboelfotouh ; Supervised Nagat Said Habeb , Enas Helmy Elshair

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Nursing - Department of Community Health Nursing

Background: Family caregivers had heavy burden and a lot of responsibilities toward their clients using vacuum wound therapy. Aim of this study to asses knowledge and practice of family caregiver for clients using vacuum wound therapy for infected limb surgical wound Materials and methods: Design: A descriptive research design. Setting:. Out patient emergency plastic surgical clinic which affiliated to emergency hospital 185 at Cairo university hospital .The study sample: A convenient sample of 61 family caregivers and their61 clients used vacuum wound therapy were included in the study from August 2017 to March 2018. Tool for data collection: " Clients and family caregivers a structured interview questionnaire" which divided to four parts .Part(I) : demographic characteristics of the family caregivers and clients. Part (II): medical history of clients and home environment. Part (III): family caregiver knowledge about vacuum wound therapy part (IV): family caregiver practice about vacuum wound therapy. The total knowledge and practice scores for questionnaires are 100 %. Results:this study show that less than half of family caregivers between aged from 20 to less than 30 years and more than three quarters of them was male There was positive statistically significant relations between total knowledge of family caregivers and their age, p == 0.02. and education level, p = 0.07.There was a positive statistical significant total practice and their job, p == 0.08

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