Assessment of the Patients’ Knowledge about their Disease for Rheumatoid arthritis at Baghdad Teaching Hospital AL-Kaabi Hashim Jebur Abed1,*, Mansour Khalida Alwan2 1MSc Adult Nursing, Ministry of Health, Iraq 2Department of Adult Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Baghdad, Iraq *Corresponding author: Hashim Jebur Abed AL-Kaabi. MSc adult nursing, Ministry of Health, Iraq.
Online published on 2 February, 2019. Abstract The aim of the study was to identify the patients’ needs to educational program in the context of their health problems, as expressed in their subjective assessment. A descriptive study design was carried out in the Outpatient Clinics for Rheumatology at AL-Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, from April to May 2018. A non-probability (purposive) sample was selected and composed of (40) adult (male and female) patients with rheumatoid arthritis who attend to Outpatient Clinics for Rheumatology. There were 40 patients included in the study. The mean age of the participants was (41.30 ± 9.90) years. Of the 40 respondents, the largest age category was of those between 40–49 years (35%). There were 27 (67.5%) females and 13 (32.5%) males The mean of disease duration was 21 (52.5%) years. The results of the assessing show the level of knowledge about disease of patients with RA is very low. Therefore, the results show the need for education programs about exercise, diet, relaxation technique and information about their disease. There was no signifcant relationship between patients’ knowledge domains and clinical characteristics, in addition there were no signifcant relationship between patients ’knowledge domains and social-demographic characteristics at p ≥ 0.01 value. Top Keywords Rheumatoid arthritis, RA, awareness, education. Top |