Home Management and Prevention of Vaso-Occlusive Crisis of Sickle Cell Disease Knowledge among Nursing Students

Abstract

Sickle cell crisis, or vaso-occlusive crisis, is a painful complication of sickle cell disease that occurs in adolescents and adults, which is considered the most common reason these patients seek medical attention in an emergency room. Despite the high prevalence of sickle cell disease in the Jazan region, Saudi Arabia, there hasn’t been a study looking at nursing students’ knowledge about sickle cell disease and home management and prevention of vaso-occlusive crises associated with sickle cell disease. Most of those focused on the investigation of the public, parents of children with sickle cell disease, school students, and patients with sickle cell disease. Therefore, this study aims to assess the level of knowledge about home management and prevention of vaso-occlusive crises among Saudi nursing students at the Aldayer University College, Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A descriptive cross-sectional design was used in this study that involved 167 nursing students. The study revealed that Aldayer nursing students had adequate knowledge about the home management and prevention of sickle cell disease vaso-occlusive crises.

Keywords:

• Vaso-occlusive
• crisis
• sickle cell
• disease

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the Standing Committee for Scientific Research at Jazan University for their approval as well as all students who took part in the current study.

Declaration of interest

All the authors hereby declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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