SUITABILITY TEST OF WAGNER SCALE AND BATESJENSEN IN EVALUATING THE HEALING GRADE OF DIABETIC ULCER PATIENTS | Asbaningsih | Jurnal Luka Indonesia 1 SM

Jurnal Luka Indonesia Vol.2(2): Juni-September 2016

ISSN: 2442-2665

ORAL PRESENTATION
How to cite:
Asbaningsih Febrianti ,
Gayatri Dewi, Suitability Test Of
Wagner Scale And Batesjensen In Evaluating The
Healing Grade Of Diabetic
Ulcer Patients, Jurnal luka
Indonesia. 2016, 2(2):101
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Corresponding authors:
febrianti.asbaningsih
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SUITABILITY TEST OF WAGNER SCALE
AND BATES-JENSEN IN EVALUATING
THE HEALING GRADE OF DIABETIC ULCER
PATIENTS
1
Ns. Febrianti Asbaningsih, S.Kep
2
Dr. Dewi Gayatri, Skp., M.Kes

Faculty of Nursing, University of Indonesia

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ABSTRACT
Background : Diabetic ulcer is one of the complications of diabetes mellitus
which require appropriate wound evaluation instruments to determine the
proper treatment in order to avoid more severe condition. The study
objective was to identify the relationship between the Wagner scale wound
assessment instruments and Bates- Jensen Wound Assessment Tool (BWAT)
in patients with diabetic ulcers.

Methods: The study design was descriptive cross sectional study. The
samples of this study were 43 patients with diabetic ulcer. The instrument
used was the Wagner scale to measure the severity of the diabetic ulcers
patient's wound and the BWAT used to measure the severity of the patient's
decubitus ulcer wounds.
Results: The result of statistical tests showed that there was a strong
correlation between the Wagner scale instrument and the BWAT in
assessing diabetic ulcer wounds (r = 0.789, p = 0.0005).
Conclusions: The results of the study showed that the BWAT can be used to
evaluate diabetic ulcer wounds. Therefore it could be recommended to use
BWAT for evaluating wound healing in patients with diabetic ulcer is clinical
setting.
Keywords:
Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool, diabetic ulcer, Wagner scale

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