Vol. 7, Issue 6 (2018)

The result of the study depicts that more than half (58%) of the nurses were in the age group of 20-25 years, majority of nurses (82%) were having qualification in G.N.M, with majority of nurses (89%) were in 1-5 years of experience, More than half of nurses (52%) having no additional information about umbilical cord blood banking required, more than half of the nurses (51%) not heard about umbilical cord blood banking, majority of the nurses(94%) having no training courses about umbilical cord blood sampling and stem cell sampling, forty three percent (43%) of nurses had average knowledge, followed by (28%) of nurses had good knowledge, (19%) of nurses had very good knowledge and only (10%)of nurses had excellent knowledge regarding stem cell umbilical cord blood banking, fifty one percent (51%) of nurses had moderate favorable attitude regarding stem cells and umbilical cord blood banking and there was significant correlation between knowledge and attitude scores as evident by ‘r’ value of 0.15.