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Background: Venous leg ulcers (VLUs) are chronic wounds that impose a substantial economic burden on world health care system and significant morbidity. venous leg ulcer patients' require special care for their wounds to promote healing and improving quality of their life. Aim: This study aimed toevaluate the effect of an educational program regarding care of wound healing for venous leg ulcer patients'. Subjects and Method: Design: A quasi-experimental research design was used in the current study. Setting: The study was conducted in general surgical units and outpatient clinic at El-Mansoura university hospital, Egypt. Subjects: A purposive sample included 50 patients with venous leg ulcer. Tools: Two tools were used for data collection; Socio-demographic data assessment tool and Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment tool. Data was collected from patients two times; one time before implementing the wound care program, and a second time after 12 weeks of its implementation Results: Itrevealed a statistically significant improvement in patients' wound healing after implementing educational program regarding venous leg ulcer care with (P-value = < 0.001) Conclusion: the study concluded presence of an improvement in patients' wound healing after implementing educational program. Recommendations: Conducting continues workshops for health care providers about traditional and new trends of dressing and wound care of venous leg ulcer. It is recommend conducting comparative study of effectiveness of different types of wound dressing on venous leg ulcer healing.
DOI
10.21608/pssjn.2022.102177.1154
Keywords
Educational Program, Venous Leg Ulcer Patients, Wound healing
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medical- surgical nursing,faculty of nursing, port-said university,port said, Egypt
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rehammoharam@nur.psu.edu.eg
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Professor of medical surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Port Saied University
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emanshaheen@yahoo.com
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Assist. Prof. of Medical Surgical Nursing. Faculty of Nursing Port Said University
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koko.mido22@yahoo.com
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Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University
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Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing
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https://pssjn.journals.ekb.eg/
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