ABSTRACT

Background: Mainly Dyslipidemia causes cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) especially coronary heart disease (CHD). Dyslipidemia is caused by multiple factors including diet, tobacco smoking, or heredity.

Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional design study to assess of nursing students’ knowledge about dyslipidemia. The study started from 3rd January until seventieth April 2020 in order to complete the study. Convenient sample of (135) nursing students’ who were from all study stages unless first stage because they have no. The instrument of the study was questionnaire consisted of two parts the first consist of socio-demographic characteristics. Second part consist of fifteen questions related to dyslipidemia, which are built based on extensive and related literature review. Statistical Analysis has been applied through using SPSS version 20 both descriptive and inferential analysis.

Results: the findings shows that the total students' knowledge concerning dyslipidemia, had moderate knowledge, with respect to the total mean of score (MS) which was (0.52). In addition, there is no significant association between students’ knowledge and sociodemographic variables.

Conclusions: Based on the results of the study; it can be concluded that nursing students have no sufficient knowledge toward dyslipidemia; also, demographic variables have no effect on knowledge of study participants. Another study needed with large sample to find more outcomes about knowledge and awareness of nursing students towards dyslipidemia.

Keyword: Nursing, Students’ Knowledge, Dyslipidemia