Mothers’ Knowledge toward Home Care for Children with Wilms Tumors at Pediatric Hospitals in Bagdad City

Abstract

Objectives: To find out relationships between mothers’ knowledge and their demographic characteristics that
includes (age, marital status, level of education, family income, home location, number of family members.
Methods: A descriptive research was performed from October 1, 2020, to June 1, 2021, Non - probability
(purposive) sample. In which the sample was objectively chosen from (100) mothers who participated in the
study and were obtained from three Baghdad hospitals. It included 47 mothers at the Child welfare Teaching
Hospital and 28 at the Central Child Teaching Hospital and 25 in the city of Miamian al-Kadhimin (peace
be upon them both) in Baghdad.
Results: Mothers’ knowledge towards homecare for “Children with Wilms Tumours” at pediatric hospital’s
items was not assigned at the established level in which that achieving the goal of this study.
Conclusion: Mothers’ knowledge towards homecare for “Children with Wilms Tumours” at pediatric
hospital’s items was not assigned at the established level in which that achieving the goal of this study.