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Introduction: Hypertension is the most frequently occurring medical problem experienced by the others during pregnancy. It is major cause of maternal and perinatal mortality & morbidity. This disease condition includes chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension pre-eclampsia, superimposed pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. Preeclampsia is systemic disease with hypertension accompanied by proteinuria after 20th week of gestation and eclampsia is defined as the occurrence of seizure. Severe hypertension is defined as a systolic blood pressure ≥ 160 mm Hg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 110 mm Hg. Without severe hypertension of all pregnancies 7 to 9% are complicated by hypertension about 1% of pregnancies are complicated by pre-existing hypertension 5 to 6% by gestational hypertension without protein urea (half of which presents preterm) and 2% by pre-eclampsia. Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy occur in about 10% of all pregnant women around the world. In Asia & Africa, nearly one tenth of all maternal deaths are associated with hypertensive disorder of pregnancy. In India, the incidence of preeclampsia is reported to be 8- 10% among the pregnant women. Preeclampsia is a pregnancy specific hypertensive disease with multisystem involvement. It occurs after 20 weeks of gestation and can present as late as 4-6 weeks postpartum. Objective: The main objective was to assess the knowledge of staff nurses regarding management of pre-eclampsia so as to reduce majority of maternal and fetal deaths due to pre-eclampsia. Approach and Design: In this study, quantitative research approach and descriptive cross sectional research design was used. Samples and sampling criteria: The knowledge was assessed among 70 staff nurses working in RML Hospital, Lucknow, UP. The written consent was obtained from samples. Subjects were selected using purposive sampling technique. The data was collected using self administered self structured questionnaire. Results: The findings of the study revealed that maximum number of participants 44(62.85%) having moderate level of knowledge and 24 (34.28%) were having inappropriate level of knowledge and 2(2.85%) were having appropriate of knowledge. It was been found that there was a significant association between the knowledge scores with their selected demographic variable like working experience of staff nurses (ꭓ2=16.28).Conclusion: The findings of the study revealed that majority of the staff nurses were having moderate level of knowledge regarding management of pre-eclampsia on the basis of their working experience.
"Study to Assess the Knowledge of Staff Nurses Regarding Management of Pre- Eclampsia in Selected Areas at Lucknow", International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.7, Issue 7, page no.454 - 458, July-2022, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2207067.pdf
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