Introduction:

modern science, especially nursery, has created a specialty recognized for more than four hundred years, where the caregiver participates to offer a comprehensive care to patient.

Objective:

to identify the training level of the main caregivers of patients with brain cancer surgery.

Materials and methods:

interventional and developmental study carried out in the Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital Comandante Faustino Perez Hernandez, from Matanzas, between March 2016 and March 2017. The universe was constituted by 46 caregivers of patients with brain cancer surgery. Statistical processes were represented in absolute frequencies: percent, median, typical deviation, variance, minimal and maximal value.

Results:

50-59 years-old age group predominated (30.43 %), and female gender showed the higher incidence (84.78 %). 95.65 % had the lowest level of knowledge before the training, and after it, medium level was 73.91 %.

Conclusions:

the primary caregivers of patients with brain cancer surgery stated their satisfaction for knowledge.

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