A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding varicose vein and its management among icu nurses in selected hospital of indore city

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Chanchal Malviya and Vipina Saji

This study determines the level of knowledge regarding varicose vein and its management among ICU Nurses through multiple choice statements. The study aimed to assess the knowledge regarding varicose vein and its management among ICU Nurses and find out association of knowledge regarding varicose vein among ICU Nurses with selected socio demographic variables. A descriptive study was carried out with 30 ICU Nurses working in ICU of Medanta Hospital, Indore. Multiple choice statements were used to evaluate the knowledge regarding varicose vein. Socio-demographic data was analyzed with descriptive statistics that is frequency and percentage and inferential statistics chi square was used to find out the association between knowledge regarding varicose vein and its management with selected socio demographic variables. The result showed that the mean knowledge score of ICU Nurses was 8.6 and computed standard deviation was 3.817. There was no significant association between knowledge and selected socio demographic variables (age, gender, marital status, education, area of previous working, total working experience, and working hours) at 0.05 level of significance. Thus for this study one can conclude that ICU Nurses working in ICU of Medanta Hospital, Indore have adequate knowledge regarding Varicose vein and there was no significant association between knowledge and selected socio demographic variables(age, gender, marital status, education, area of previous working, total working experience, and working hours).

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.12465.2192
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