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Abstract
Umbilical Cord blood collection has many benefits in
terms of transplantation due to its cell content; moreover, it
has some other advantages, it has almost no confrontation
with viruses or microorganisms during the intrauterine period
and it is obtainable without any contact with the newborn.
Along with all these advantages, cord blood has a restriction
in that it is usually appropriate only for children or adults
(Amin, et al., 2016).
Stem cells taken from the umbilical cord to be used in
stem cell therapy are supposed to be preserved under
appropriate conditions. Storing umbilical cord blood in liquid
nitrogen tanks for long periods is called cord blood banking.
It has been proven that cord blood can be preserved in the
laboratories for up to 15 years in modern facilities (Edwin et
al., 2016).
The use of stem cells and cord blood is a very
comprehensive topic. Maternity nurses are supposed to
inform pregnant women on this subject during the prenatal
period since it is highly detailed and conventional thoughts
on these matters are very dominant (Patyal et al., 2018).
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The study aimed to assess knowledge of maternity
nurses regarding cord blood collection and assess the attitude
of maternity nurses regarding cord blood collection.
The study design was descriptive study design was
used; it was conducted at Ain Shams University Maternity
Hospital. The convenient sample used, the sample was 250
nurses who work in the previously mentioned setting were
invited to participate in this study regardless of their age, sex,
experience, level of education and position.
Tools of Data Collection:
Self-administered structured questionnaire sheet
assesses general characteristics of the study nurses include
age, qualifications, years of experience and attending
previous training. Moreover, it has assessed nurses
knowledge regarding the source of blood collection whether
it from venous, arterial or from both vessels, advantages and
the disadvantages of the use of cord blood, assess nurse’s
knowledge regarding the diseases that can be treated with
umbilical cord blood transplantation such as malignancies,
immunodeficiency disorders, bone marrow failure,
haemoglobinopathies and the metabolic disorders and it has
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assessed nurse’s knowledge regarding the recommended
procedures during cord banking and the precautions during
the collection of blood in a special bags that containing
anticoagulant agents, the importance of processing and
freezing the collected blood immediately, the recommended
temperature for storing and following the infection control
precautions it also contained data related to the importance of
blood banks accreditation and the cord blood standards.
Besides, a Likert scale was used to assess nurses’ attitudes
regarding cord blood collection and stem cells.
Results:-
41.2% of the studied nurses their age ranged between
20<30 years with mean 26.1 ±3.4 years. 51.6% of the
studied nurses were technical institute. 56.4% of the
studied nurses had years of experience between 5 <10
years. 93.2 % of the studied nurses did not attend training
related to umbilical cord blood collection.
63.2% of the studied nurses had incorrect knowledge
related to umbilical cord blood collection, while 36.8%of
them had correct knowledge related to umbilical cord
blood collection.
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45.6% of the studied nurses had positive attitude to
umbilical cord blood collection, while 33.6% of them had
negative attitude to umbilical cord blood collection and
20.8% of them had uncertain attitude to umbilical cord
blood collection.
There were statistically significant relations between the
knowledge of studied nurses regarding umbilical cord
blood collection and their age, qualification and attending
training courses related to stem cells (p-value < 0.05).
There was a statistically insignificant relationship
between the knowledge of studied nurses regarding
umbilical cord blood collection and their years of
experience (p-value > 0.05).
There was a statistically significant relationship between
the knowledge of studied nurses regarding umbilical cord
blood collection and their source of knowledge (p-value <
0.05).
There were highly statistically significant relations
between the attitude of studied nurses regarding umbilical
cord blood collection and their age, their qualification,
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and years of experience (p-value <0.0001& <0.005
respectively).
There were statistically significant relations between the
attitude of studied nurses regarding umbilical cord blood
collection and they’re (p-value <0.05).
There was a statistically insignificant relationship
between the attitudes of studied nurses regarding
umbilical cord blood collection and attending training
courses related to stem cells (p-value > 0.05).
There was a highly statistically significant relationship
between the attitude of studied nurses regarding umbilical
cord blood collection and their source of knowledge (pvalue
< 0.01).
There was a highly significant correlation between the
total knowledge score of studied nurses & their total
attitude score regarding umbilical cord blood collection (pvalue
<0.01).