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Mothers’ Knowledge, Practice and Attitude regarding Warts in Children

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Community health nursing

Abstract

Background: Warts are one of the most common, persistent and frustrating cutaneous
problems encountered in dermatology clinical practice especially in younger generations. Aim of
study: Was to assess mothers' knowledge and attitude regarding warts in children. Research
design: A descriptive research design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: The study was
conducted at Dermatology Outpatient Clinics affiliated to Benha University Hospital. Sample: All
mothers accompanied with their children in the previous mentioned setting during six months were
used, it included 150 mothers. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used, I: A structured
interviewing questionnaire consisted of three parts I; a) Demographic characteristics of mothers, b)
Demographic characteristics of children, c) Medical history of children. II: Mothers' knowledge
regarding their children with warts. III; Mother's practices regarding their children with warts, and
II: Scale to measure attitude of the mothers about warts. Results: 41.3% of studied mothers aged
from 20-30 years and 48.0% of them had high education. 23.3% of mothers had average knowledge
about warts disease, 61.3% of mothers had unsatisfactory total practices regarding dealing with
their children, and46.0%of mothers had negative attitude regarding warts. Conclusion: There were
a statically significant relation between mothers' knowledge, practices and their demographic
characteristics, and there was significant relation between total mothers practice and total
knowledge. Recommendations: Health education program should be implemented at dermatology
outpatient clinics to improve mother's knowledge, practices and attitude regarding their children
with warts disease.

DOI

10.21608/jnsbu.2022.247681

Keywords

Key words: Children, demographic, Knowledge & Practices and attitude, Warts

Authors

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Amany

Last Name

Mohammed Elsayed el attar

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M.Sc. student of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing -Benha University, Egypt

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Mahbouba

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Sobhy Abd El-Aziz

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Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing -Benha University, Egypt

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Ahlam

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El Ahmady Mohammed Sarahan

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Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing -Benha University, Egypt

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Volume

3

Article Issue

2

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35042

Issue Date

2022-07-01

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2022-06-01

Publish Date

2022-07-01

Page Start

589

Page End

603

Print ISSN

2682-3934

Online ISSN

2735-5802

Article File

JNSBU_Volume 3_Issue 2_Pages 589-603.pdf

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Scientific peer reviewed journal

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1,622

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Publication Title

Journal of Nursing Science Benha University

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https://jnsbu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Mothers’ Knowledge, Practice and Attitude regarding Warts in Children

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23 Jan 2023