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2023 Assessing knowledge and practice of Caregivers regarding Clients Using Vacuum Wound Therapy Helwan International Journal for Nursing Research and Practice
Assessing knowledge and practice of Caregivers regarding Clients Using Vacuum Wound Therapy Soheir Abo Elfotouh Ibrahim* Afaf Salah AbdElmohsen **.Sahar Ahmad Shafik***Mayada Mahmoud Sabea******Professor of Community Health Nursing Faculty of Nursing - Helwan University *** Professor of Community Health NursingFaculty of Nursing -ELFayuom University****AssistanceProfessor of Community Health NursingFaculty of Nursing - Helwan UniversityBackground:Vacuum wound therapy is a dressing system that continuously or intermittently applies negative pressure across the surface of wounds that are acute, chronic, complex, or difficult to heal;. Aim Assess knowledge and practice of caregivers regarding clients using vacuum wound therapy. Design A descriptive research design. Setting The study was conducted at outpatient at Cairo university hospitalsSample: Convenient sample that included all caregivers who have clients with limb traumatic wound using vacuum wound therapy at home (98 client and 98 caregivers).Tools of data collection:An interviewing questionnaire sheet consists of five parts: Part I: demographic characteristic of caregivers and clients. Part II: Past and previous history of the clients Part III: Clients home environment reported by caregivers. Part IV: caregivers' knowledgevacuum wound therapy and healthy diet. Part V: Caregivers reported practice regardingvacuum wound therapy. Results total score Knowledge was 60%, and total reported practice score was 30%,. Conclusion there is a highly statistically significant relation between caregivers total knowledge and their demographic characteristics. There is