Assessing the Knowledge Regarding Cord Blood Banking among Nurse Educators, Staff Nurses and Nursing Students

Umbilical cord blood is rich in stem cells, which are the building blocks of the blood and the immune system. These biologically unique cells have the ability to develop into other cell types within the body. Stem cells collected from the umbilical cord have the ability to replace bone marrow and to produce various blood and immune cells. Nursing personnel have the great responsibility to educate about cord blood banking as an opportunity for parents to save the stem cells found in the blood of their newborn's umbilical cord.

Statement of the problem

Assessing the knowledge regarding cord blood banking among nurse educators, staff nurses and nursing students.

The research study was conducted in two settings: Justice K.S Hegde charitable hospital, Dearalakatte and Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing sciences. The study findings showed that, Majority of subjects 63 (84%) were in the age group of 21–30. It is observed that 72 (96%) of the participants were females.

As the p value for the variable such as age, Gender, educational qualification, work experience, information regarding cord blood banking <0.05 at 0.05 level of significance using Likelihood ratio and it is interpreted that there is significant association between the knowledge regarding cord blood banking among nurse educators, staff nurses and the nursing students with selected demographic variables.

The likelihood calculated value of age with regard to knowledge regarding cord blood banking is 0.004. Whereas, the calculated likelihood ratio with gender is <0.033. The likelihood ratio with educational qualification is <0.001. Mean while the calculated likelihood ratio with work experience is <0.001. The calculated likelihood ratio with information regarding blood banking is <0.002. Hence, there is significant association between age, gender, educational qualification and work experience.