Assessment of Nursing Knowledge About Care of Patients Diagnosed with Thalassemia Major

Abstract

Thalassemia is a life-threatening disease and patients with this require whole-life medical care. Nurses play the most important part in the care of such patients. Objective: To assess the knowledge among nurses who are dealing with and their role in the management of thalassemia patients. Methods: In this study, a pre-test and a post-test were conducted among nurses. In the study, a questionnaire was given to 150 nurses to fill out before and after the awareness session who were included in the study. Pre and post-mean score differences were found using the Wilcoxon test, and a relationship was determined between post-mean score and level of experience using Spearman correlation. Results: The mean age of the participants was 28.73± (3.15) years. Comparison of the nurses’ pre- and post-session mean knowledge scores revealed that the nurses’ post scores in knowledge (39.48±2.08) were higher than their pre-receiving guide scores (21.18±3.47) and that the difference was statistically significant (Z = -10.62, P = 0.000). Conclusions: According to the facts of this study, on the post-test, the level of thalassemia knowledge was higher among nurses who had received nursing care protocol training than among those who had not. Nursing level of experience and post-training sessions had a significant relationship.