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EFFECT OF AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM REGARDING CARE OF WOUND HEALING FOR VENOUS LEG ULCER PATIENTS

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Medical Surgical Nursing

Abstract

               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

Authors

First Name

Reham

Last Name

Serag

MiddleName

Moharam

Affiliation

medical- surgical nursing,faculty of nursing, port-said university,port said, Egypt

Email

rehammoharam@nur.psu.edu.eg

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damietta

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First Name

Eman

Last Name

Shaheen

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Affiliation

Professor of medical surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Port Saied University

Email

emanshaheen@yahoo.com

City

Port Said

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First Name

Dina

Last Name

Sobeh

MiddleName

El Tabey

Affiliation

Assist. Prof. of Medical Surgical Nursing. Faculty of Nursing Port Said University

Email

koko.mido22@yahoo.com

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First Name

Naglaa

Last Name

Mahdy

MiddleName

ELsayed

Affiliation

Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University

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Volume

9

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

36090

Issue Date

2022-08-01

Receive Date

2021-10-21

Publish Date

2022-08-01

Page Start

181

Page End

196

Print ISSN

2356-8658

Online ISSN

2682-3241

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7

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Original Article

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866

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Journal

Publication Title

Port Said Scientific Journal of Nursing

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https://pssjn.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023