Pressure Ulcer remains a serious burden to debilitated
patients, their families and the managing institutions.
The burden of pressure ulcers is one of major cause of
increased disease states and death rates despite
increased interest and advances currently in the elds of
Nursing care, Medicine and Surgery as well as
education concerning self-care. This study aimed at
exploring the effectiveness of a family caregiver
centered nursing protocol on knowledge of pressure
ulcer prevention in a tertiary health facility in Kano
state. A pre and post quasi-experimental design was
employed in which two hundred (200) participants were
recruited and allocated into study and control groups.
An Interviewer administered questionnaire was used to
assess the knowledge of caregivers from both study and
control group before and after nursing protocol
intervention. Validity and reliability was ensured and
data was collected with the help of research assistants.
Data was organized, coded and analyzed using
statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 26.
The result of this study indicates that t Pre-intervention
results revealed that firstly, there is no significant
difference in the socio-demographics of the two groups
(P=0.99) and secondly, there no significant difference in
the knowledge of pressure ulcer between the two groups
(P=0.636). Also, the Post intervention phase results
noted that there is a significant difference in the
knowledge score of the study group after intervention
(p=0.003). but, reveals no significant difference between
the knowledge score of the control group before and after
intervention.(p= 0.260). Lastly, the result showed that
there is significant statistical mean difference in the
knowledge (t= 18.085, p=0.001), of family caregivers in
the study group compared to the control which shows the
effect of nursing protocol. The study finally concluded
that interventions targeted at family caregivers for
preventing pressure sore can have significant effect in reducing chances of pressure ulcer development among
at risk populations especially at resource constraint
settings. The study therefore recommended involvement
of family caregivers bedridden patients in the prevention
of pressure ulcer after a structured training especially in
resource limited settings.
- IDRIS | ABDULRASHID | , | aidris.nur@buk.edu.ng, | +2348063375818, DALHAT | KHALID | SANI; | dksani@abu.edu.ng | 07035385167, ABDURRAHMAN | SALIHU | KOMBO, | aksalihu@abu.edu.ng | 08032916542,, HUSAINI | MUHAMMAD | AIKAWA | hmaikawa.sce@buk.edu.ng | 08032878751, ADAMU | DALHATU | , | adamudalhatu206@gmail.com | 08039503072
- Knowledge, Practice, Attitude, Perception, Bedridden, Nursing Protocol
- EFFECTIVENESS OF FAMILY CAREGIVERS CENTERED NURSING ON KNOWLEDGE OF PRESSURE ULCER PREVENTION IN A TERTIARY HEALTH FACILITY IN KANO NIGERIA
