The Effects of a Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program in Patients with Spine Surgery
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This is a two-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research that aimed to compare the incidences of pressure ulcers in patients undergoing spinal surgery in the group who received a pressure ulcer prevention program and the group who received regular nursing care. The sample consisted of patients aged 18 years and over. The researcher purposively selected 58 people, divided into equal numbers of control and experimental groups. The experimental group received a pressure ulcer prevention program. The control group received regular nursing care. The incidences of pressure ulcers were measured by using the Bates-Jensen wound assessment tool (BWAT), with
the content validity at 1.00 and reliability at .98. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Chi-square statistics, Fisher statistics and Man-Whitney U statistics
The results of the study found that the experimental group had significantly lower pressure ulcers than the control group both immediately after surgery and within 2 hours after surgery. A pressure ulcer prevention program in patients with spine surgery can reduce the occurrence of pressure ulcers. These results indicated that the program can be applied to preventing pressure ulcers in patients undergoing spinal surgery who do not have a cervical spine injury and there was no use of intraoperative skull fixation tools.
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