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Description of the caregiver’s educational needs and the degree of her dissatisfaction
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This study emphasized the learning needs of caregivers whose husbands have cancer and describes their level of dissastisfaction concerning these needs. A convenience sample of 30 women caregivers was used. The results demonstrate that caregivers possess initial acquired knowledge as learners and have 26 specific learning needs. The existence of a learning need produces a level of dissatisfaction among the female caregivers. Among these learning needs, the most likely to generate the greatest dissatisfaction are the learning needs associated with personal concerns. The results encourage nurses to play a more active role in learning by assessing whether the information the caregivers are receiving is understood well enough to meet their learning needs.
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