Assessment of Pregnant Women knowledge and attitude towards Umbilical Cord Banking and Stem Cell.

Abstract

Background: Nowadays, the collection of stem cells from the blood of the umbilical cord is one of the most important topics of health sciences and new technology. However, cord blood is now considered a rich source of adult stem cells that can be used to treat many conditions and diseases. It is still a controversial topic. The current study aims to assess pregnant women's knowledge and attitude toward umbilical cord banking and stem cell. Research design: Descriptive exploratory research design was adopted to achieve the aim of the study. Setting: The study was conducted at the obstetrics &gynecology outpatient clinic at Beni-Suef University hospital in Egypt. Subjects: A convenient sample of 200 pregnant women was recruited. Tools of data collection: three tools were used for this study (1) Maternal structured interviewing questionnaire and (2) knowledge assessment questionnaire and (3) attitude assessment questionnaire. Results: It was found that 42.5% had an average level of knowledge regarding cord blood banking and stem cell with the negative attitude (67%) with no statistically significant difference (p >0.05). Besides, the sources of information were social media followed by nurses/ midwives. Conclusion: The present study concluded that despite nearly half of the pregnant women had average level knowledge but the majority of them had a negative attitude toward umbilical cord blood banking and stem cell. Recommendations: adequately planned in-service training programs related to cord blood collection and stem cells established to distribute among the pregnant women who attending the antenatal clinics.

Pregnant Women' Knowledge and Attitudes toward Cord Blood Stem Cell Banking and Donation at Gharbia Governorate, Egypt

“…While, the other half have negative attitude score (Figure 5). This result is agreement with Reda et al (2021) (25) who found that 67% of their participant had negative attitude and 33% of them had positive attitude. Again, Key Value Pair (2018) (32) who studied pregnant women knowledge and attitude about the storage of cord blood and reported also a negative attitude toward the stem cell and blood banking among the majority of the sample.…”

“…This may be due to that more than half of the studied sample did not completes their university education and about one third of them their pregnancy was the first and have not knowledge and experience. This is also may be due to that only 11.6% of studied (25) who revealed that above half of the studied participants had poor knowledge level, less than quarter of them had a good knowledge level toward umbilical cord banking and stem cell. These results were supported also by Habib et al, (2017) (26) who study " knowledge and attitude of Saudi women toward UCB' and revealed that half of the sample had poor knowledge level and only 18% had good knowledge level.…”

“…This result is in the same line with that of El-Sayed H et al, (2018) (35) who proved a relation between the education, occupation, residence of the study sample and their knowledge score. Reda et al (2021) (25) also reported a statistically significant association between knowledge, attitude and age and educational level. While, there was not a statistically significant association with residence and occupation.…”

“…This result is in agreement with Subramaniam P et al (2021) (24) and Ozturk et al (2017) (31) who found that, the internet is a primary source of information for their studied mothers and reported healthcare professionals as a secondary source. Reda et al (2021) (25) reported again that social media as first sources of information followed by nurses/ midwifery. The result of the present study and the other studies could be due to the fact that the internet and social media have become an important aspect of women's live nowadays.…”

Inconsistencies in Pregnant Mothers’ Attitudes and Willingness to Donate Umbilical Cord Stem Cells: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from Saudi Arabia

“…This study also demonstrated that only 16% of the women in this sample were willing to donate umbilical cord blood, which increased to 91% after an educational intervention. A study from Egypt based on a convenient sample of 200 women showed that over one-third of women had average knowledge about donating UCBCs, and over two-thirds of women had negative attitudes towards this practice [22]. A quantitative study assessed the levels and nature of awareness about cord blood banking by surveying over 1100 participants from the general population in Saudi Arabia.…”