Journal of Nursing & Care

Background: Neonatal jaundice (NNJ) is a significant cause of neonatal morbidity worldwide and accounts for 75% of hospital readmissions in the first week of life. Severe neonatal jaundice can lead to irreversible brain damage or even death in otherwise healthy new-borns. One means of improving neonatal care and reducing potential mortality associated with neonatal jaundice in resource-limited settings is to create awareness among caregivers. Mothers therefore play a vital role in the early identification and prevention of complications.

Aim: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding neonatal jaundice among mothers per available empirical literatures.

Methodology: A critical review was done based on the objectives set for the study. The search for literature was conducted utilizing five (5) electronic databases including Google Scholar, PubMed, Research Gate, EMBASE and CINHAL for studies published in the English language from December, 2011 to 2021. Mendeley 7 software was used to manage retrieval of articles and screening for duplicates.

Findings: A total of twenty-five (25) studies were included in the review. The majority of the studies reviewed reported that mothers had poor knowledge of neonatal jaundice in terms of causes, signs and symptoms, management and prevention and that this was prevalent in most low-tomiddle- income countries. Also, mothers had a negative attitude towards neonatal jaundice. Thus, most mothers affirmed that NNJ is not dangerous enough to be treated at the hospital and prefer to expose the baby to sunlight. Moreover, the majority of the studies reported poor practices of mothers towards the management of NNJ as most mothers exposed their new-borns to direct sunlight, herbal treatment and cutting the area between the baby’s eyebrows with a blade.

Conclusion: The findings highlight the importance of stepping up efforts to improve mothers’ knowledge, attitude and practices of NNJ. Also, health professionals should make use of the numerous media houses to dispel negative cultural beliefs attached to NNJ to aid in seeking early health care at health facilities.

Introduction: Breast cancer is the 5th leading cause of cancer death. Primary Prevention of breast cancer play crucial role to prevent cancer death caused due to breast cancer. It is needed to flourish nurse’s knowledge about primary prevention of breast cancer as Nurse Play vital role to aware people in community and in hospital setting. This study has focused to assess effectiveness of structure teaching programme regarding primary prevention of breast cancer.

Material and Method: By using non probability purposive sampling technique, data was collected from 40 staff nurses by using structured questionnaires of 20 items on primary prevention of breast cancer. One group pre-test post-test design gets adapted. ‘t’ test used to figure out difference between pre and post-test knowledge score.

Result: in pre-test, 16 (40%) samples were with excellent knowledge score about primary prevention of breast cancer while, in post-test all 40(100%) samples shown excellent score. The ‘t’ value of oversell knowledge was 10.68 and mean difference between pre and post-test for over all knowledge was 4.7.

Conclusion: the study revealed that structure teaching programme is one of the effective methods to improve knowledge regarding primary prevention of breast cancer among staff nurses.