A Study To Assess The Knowledge And Attitude Of Modern Wound Care Dressing Management Among Nurses In Surgical Ward 4 Al Sabah Hospital Kuwait

Setiyadi, Agung (2016) A Study To Assess The Knowledge And Attitude Of Modern Wound Care Dressing Management Among Nurses In Surgical Ward 4 Al Sabah Hospital Kuwait. Masters thesis, Middle East University FZE.

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Abstract

Objectives: 1. To assess the knowledge regarding modern wound care dressing management among nurses in Surgical Ward 4 Al Sabah Hospital Kuwait. 2. To assess the attitude regarding modern wound care dressing management among nurses in Surgical Ward 4 Al Sabah Hospital Kuwait. 3. To correlate the knowledge and attitude regarding modern wound care dressing management among nurses in Surgical Ward 4 Al Sabah Hospital Kuwait. 4. To find out the association between the knowledge regarding modern wound care dressing management among nurses in Surgical Ward 4 Al Sabah Hospital Kuwait with their demographic variables. Methods The research approach adopted for the study was survey approach. The descriptive correlational design was used to explore the nurses’ attitude and knowledge regarding modern wound care dressing management among nurses in surgical ward 4 Al Sabah Hospital Kuwait. In addition, the relationships among nurses’ attitudes and knowledge were examined. A total of 30 nurses of Al Sabah Hospital Kuwait were selected by using convenience sampling technique and the nurses were assigned in one group. Results The descriptive and inferential statistics were used to compute the data. The statistics showed the following results: The result shows that 27(90 %) nurses had favourable attitude and 3(10 %) had moderate favourable atitude about modern wound care dressing management. And shows that 24(80 %) nurses had moderate knowledge and 3(10 %) had poor knowlegde about modern wound care dressing management. And only 3(10%) nurses had good level knowledge about modern wound care dressing management. The statistic result shows that Correlation Spearman Test score for correlation of the knowledge and attitude variable was 0.067 (P > 0.05) which revealed that the level of attitude and knowledge has no significant. There is no correlation the knowledge and attitude regarding modern wound care dressing management among nurses in Surgical Ward 4 Al Sabah Hospital Kuwait. Interpretation and conclusion The level of nurses’ knowledge was at moderate level regarding modern wound care dressing management and the level of nurses’ attitude was at favourable. All sub-dimensions of attitude were at favourable attitude. The result of this study is no correlation existed between nurses knowledge and attitude.

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