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Abstract
Mucormycosis is a rare but a very dangerous infection that affects immunocompromised patients. This infection is more popular among poor population compared to wealthy population. Mucor produces spores which spores will ruptured and will be dispersed, and get into airborne major route of infection by inhalation, ingestion and traumatic inoculation (Cudjoe et al., 2022).
Women should be aware of signs and symptoms, causes and aware about the disease nature, that include the following patients with diabetes and with renal transplants. Cleaning the fridge and leave it open for some time to get rid of moisture good house ventilation and allow sunlight to eliminate moisture get rid of black spots in bathroom ceilings resulting from humidity get rid of paper napkins and paper immediately after use avoid eating processed and canned foods containing preservatives (Gurjar et al., 2022).
The Women should be aware with the factors that contribute to develop mucormycosis for example overuse of antibiotics, cortisone, eating fruits and vegetables with a rotten part, identify the most vulnerable group for example immunocompromised patient with diabetic ketoacidosis, neutropenia, uremia, burn, corticosteroid therapy and severe malnutrition (Ghazi et al., 2021).
Nurses have an inevitable role in caring and most importantly giving education to patients with any infectious disease. Therefore the Nurses need to understand the magnitude of the disease and give adequate teaching regarding the control and prevention of Mucormycosis to the patient. It is important to increase awareness of mucormycosis among nurses who will be an important future health care providers. It is important for nursing to stay up-to-date on current guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of mucormycosis and remain cognizant of emerging literature on the topic. It is important to increase awareness of mucormycosis and to stay up-to-date on current guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of mucormycosis and remain cognizant of emerging literature on the topic (Chongloi et al., 2022).
Aim of the Study:
This study aims to assess Women awareness regarding prevention of mucormycosis among their families through:
• Assessing Women knowledge regarding prevention of mucormycosis.
• Assessing Women practice regarding prevention of mucormycosis among their families.
Research questions:
• What are women knowledge levels about mucormycosis?
• What are women practice regarding prevention of mucormycosis infection?
• Is there a relationship between women knowledge and their practices regarding prevention of mucormycosis infection?
• Is there relationship between socio demographic characteristics of the women and their practices regarding prevention of mucormycosis infection.
Subjects and Methods:
Research design:
Descriptive design was utilized to achieve the aim of the study.
Setting: The study was conducted at health center at district fifteen, Alashir of Ramadan city Alshraqia Governorate Egypt,
Sample: simple random sample. And sample size was 265 women
Data collection tool:
First tool: An Interviewing questionnaire for women included the following parts:
• Part I: Socio-demographic data of women such as (age, level of education, residence, occupation, income, number of the family member and marital status
• Part II: Family medical history,
• Part III: Women knowledge about mucormycosis. It was consisted of (definition of mucormycosis, causes, sign and symptoms, complication, high risk group, methods of transmission prevention, doctor visit and source of knowledge).
• 2ndtool self-reported practice regarding prevention of mucormycosis among their families such as:
• Good care with wounds
• House cleaner
• Clean the Preserved food and vegetables
• Close contact with a patient with a respiratory infection
• Immunity booster
Results:
The present study result showed that 47.9% of the studied women had an age group from 21-30 years, about 60.8% and 69.1% of them were married and from rural areas respectively.
Regarding educational level and occupation, it is reported that 47.9% and 57.4% of the studied women had a basic education and were housewives respectively. About 42.6% had ≥5 members in their family and 70.6% hadn’t enough income.
Revealed that 98.1% of the studied women had a poor knowledge about Mucormycosis and 1.9% of them had average knowledge.
And reported that 60.8% of the studied women had good practices and 39.2% of them had average practices.
Additionally there was correlation between total women’s knowledge and their practices p-value <0.05
Moreover, there were no statistical relation between women’s total practice and women’s age, marital status, place of residence, educational level, occupation, number of family member and income p-value >0.05 for all.