Mothers training needs about leukemia

5^th Asia-Pacific Summit on Cancer Therapy

July 20-22, 2015 Brisbane, Australia

Sameti Sedigheh

Posters Accepted Abstracts: J Cancer Sci Ther

Abstract :

Introduction: Neoplastic disorders are the major reasons of childrenâ??s diseases after the sucking period, and about half of the childâ??s cancers are related to blood and other blood making organs. Documents showed that 4.2% of each 100.000 white child under 15 years old, and 2.4% of each 100.000 black child are involved with these diseases. Aim: Concerning the high prevalence of leukemia and this matter that mothers are the major keeper of children, training them about this case is necessary. Materials & Methods: In order to determine the mothers training needs about leukemia it was tested on 360 mothers in medicinal centers of Boroujerd and Shahreza, in 2013. Testing was non random and continuous. Gathering information tool was questionnaire, and its method was interview. Information was analysis by SPSS16 software. Findings: The results showed that information of 98.4% of examined mothers about major symptoms of leukemia was normal and just 15.8% had correct information about it. 36.7% of samples were not concerned correctly about recovering methods of childrenâ??s in appetite and 59.2% were not aware of non medical methods of pain decreasing. 56.7% were not aware of preventing bleeding and 93.3% of examined mothers, were not concerned about controlling infection in these children. Conclusions: In order to those mentioned above, it seems that mothers need a perfect training about leukemia. In this case, physicians, nurses, media, school books, and training pamphlets, have a special effect on removing this need, increasing health level, childâ??s permanence and finally social health.