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Establishing Nursing Diagnoses Profile for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis:Maslow’s Model Application
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Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease, estimates about 2.5 million people around the world had MS. Furthermore, scanty studies were carried out to document nursing diagnoses among Egyptian patients suffering from MS. The aim of the current study was to establish the actual nursing diagnoses profile for patients with MS applying Maslow’s model as assessed by (I) personal information and medical background tool, (II) physical examination tool based on Maslow’s model, and (III) Multiple Sclerosis Nursing Diagnoses Profile (MSNDP) that developed by the investigators. Non experimental design was utilized in this study. A convenient sample of 100 adult male and female patients with MS was involved. The current study findings revealed that 29 actual nursing diagnoses for patients with MS based on Maslow’s hierarchy were established. The most common actual nursing diagnoses were imbalanced nutrition, activity intolerance and anxiety. Therefore, it is recommended to replicate the study using large sample from different geographical areas in Egypt to obtain more generalized data.
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Multiple Sclerosis, Nursing Diagnosis, Maslow’s Hierarchy.
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