Every year, an estimated 15 million babies are born preterm (before 37 completed weeks of gestation), and this number is rising. Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of death among children under 5 years of age, responsible for nearly 1 million deaths. Our aims were to evaluate of nurse's knowledge in management of premature baby in neonatal units (PBU). To find out relationship between socio demographic variables and nurses knowledge. To determine the relation between the experience and level of knowledge. A selected sample study carried out in four general hospital in Basra-Iraq: Basra general hospital, Almoani general hospital, Qurna general hospital and Basra hospital for Maternity and childhood. A sample of 40 nurses was included and interviewed for the purpose of the study . The enquiry forma consist of 2 part, one for the demographic data, the second part concern with evaluation of the nursing intervention for management of premature babies units, which was done by the resident doctors in these units. The second part consist of 14 items represent the roles of nurses in the PBU. Likert Scale has been used for the evaluation scores. The data has been fed in SPSS program for statistical purposes. The study Showed that 90% of the nurses was females and 10% was males, 32 % were at age interval of 20 to 29 years and 50 % were between 30 to 49 years. 15 % were at 50 to 59 years.57.5 % of the nurses are graduated from secondary school, 32.5 % are graduated from health institute, and 7.5 % from intermediate school and 2.5 % are from college. 30 % of the nurses were having 1 to 5 years of experience in the PBU, 25 % were having 11 to 15 years, 12.5 % having 6 to 10 years, 5 % having 21 years, 2.5 % having less than one years. Only 7.5 % had a participation in training session. The mean evaluation score is 73.9 %, the minimum score is 57 %, and the maximum score is 92 %. At Basra, hospital for Maternity and childhood had the highest score 77 %, and followed by Amwani general hospital 76.56 %, then Quran general hospital 75 %, and lastly Basra general hospital 66 %. There is significant correlation between the scores that the nurses got and the years of their experiences.
Abstract:A descriptive cross-sectional study was designed involving Basra university staff for the study of abdominal obesity. The university of Basra had two location: karmet Ali (108 samples ) and Bab Alzubiar (158 samples ), A randomly selected sample was taken from a list of the college, from the selected college we were chosen staff randomly. The total number of the selected college was 10, were all the departments in that colleges was included and the total number selected of staff was 266, from them were females 146 and 120 males. The demographic data has been obtained from each person in the study, The working team was asked to measure the height, weight, waist circumference and Random Blood Sugar for each selected sample, using a weight and height scale, tape measure and portable blood sugar measurement instrument.(SPSS), Version17 was utilized for the purpose for statistical analysis of the data. The results was 45% was males and 55% was females, BMI: 19.5% had healthy weight, 36.8% were overweight, 27.8 were obese, 12% were severely obese, 3.8% were morbidly obese, 43.6% of the sample were obese. 37.5% of the males were obese and 48.63% of the females were obese.30.8% carried positive history of obesity and 36.8% of the sample was practicing sport exercise, 87.6% were having normal blood sugar while 12.4% were having abnormal blood sugar (diabetics), 18% of the females had normal waist circumference and 47.5% of the males had normal waist circumference, that is mean 87% of the female had abdominal obesity and 52.5% of the males had abdominal obesity. The prevalence of abdominal obesity was 31.57%, high significant correlation between waist circumference and gender, significant correlation between BMI and practicing exercise and there is highly significant correlation between BMI and positive history of obesity in the family. high significant relationship between body weight and waist circumference and high significant relation between waist circumference and history of obesity, significant relation between waist circumference and number of daily meals and high significant relation between waist circumference and random blood sugar.
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