Browsing by Author "Ayalew, Yohannes)PhD)"

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    Assessment of Family Satisfaction in Care of Critically Ill Patient and Associated Factor in Intensive Care Unit Ofgovernmental Hospital, Addis Ababa ,ETHIOPIA,2015
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-06) Asres, Nitsuhbirhan; Ayalew, Yohannes)PhD)
    Background: -Intensive care unit is a consilidated area which needs high quality of care and followup of patients with more sphisticated equipments.Assesment of satisfaction is one indicator to determine quality of care given for the patient.In the ICU patients are not in the condition to give their opinion about the care given for the patients.In the ICU patients are not in the condition to give their openion about the care;thereforeanassesment of family satisfaction in care of critically ill patient can be important indicator of quality of care in critical care unit. Objective of this study: - To assess the family satisfaction in care of critically ill patient in ICU of governmental hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Method: - Institutional based cross sectional quantitative study conducted in five hospitals in adult, neonatal and pediatric ICU found in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. The total sample size was 206 and allocated to each hospital ICU usng stratified sampling method.After pretest of questioner data was collected by interviwer administered structered questioner.The data was entered,cleaned and coded to Epi data 3.1 and transferred to SPSS version21.The discriptive analysis such as frequency distribution,percentage and measurment of central tendency was used.Bivariate and Multivariate analysis with alpha=0.05 performed to measureassociation of satisfaction by different variables. Result:- The overall satisfaction of families of patients were 62%.Their satisfaction by subsacles was, Assurance (52%) , information (41.6%), Proximity (67.3%), Support (71.3%), Comfort (41.6%).Age less than 25 by (AOR,0.218 ,95%CI0.057-0.835) and between 25 to 35 by (AOR 0.22,95%CI 0.062-0.797) and education level below grade eight by (AOR 3.1395%CI,1.16-8.43) associated with more odds of satisfaction.Families who consider the patient condition were worsening by (AOR 0.123 95%CI0.114-0.664) and families who doesnot know the current condition of patients by (AOR 0.123 95% CI 0.04-0.37) associted with Low odds of satisfaction. Conclusion: -The overall family satisfaction in governmental hospital ICUs was 62%. Family members were less satisfied on information and comfort. Recommendation:-health professionals hospital managers and all stake holders in the care giving system has to consider family centered care and work to improve quality of care in ICU. Key word: - family satisfaction, intensive care unit
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    Assessment of Nurses for Updating Themselves with Research at Selected Hospitals and Health Centers, West Gojjam Zone, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia.
    (Addis Ababa University, 2015-06) Mekonnen, Mengistu; Ayalew, Yohannes)PhD)
    Introduction Medical and health care is one of the most dynamic human discipline and large amount of money are spent annually of high quality and sophisticated research resulting in an exponentional growth in health care literature. If so implementation of the newly innovated research in to practice has a significant improvement in patient quality of care. Objective-T0 assess nurses updating themselves with literature and put into practice. Method- these study use institutional based descriptive cross sectional study. the study area is west Gojjam zone, one of zones which is present in Amhara regional state. West Gojjam is one of zones of two Gojjam zones. It major city administration is newly selected city called Finote Selam city 386 Km from Addis in North West. Results – from the total respondents, 384, identified for the study, there is no non response rate. Most respondents(52.3%) are diploma nurse and the list in number were msc nurse. From total study participant most of them had an experience of 6-10 years(53.4%). 67% has no habit of updating and 33.1% has habit of reading professional knowledge. Almost all respondents(100%) agreed that there was barrier to access. A number of barriers identified was no internet access(78.13%). Not knowing to find articles(83.6%). Luck of understanding to interpret statically term and jargon(84.9%). Managerial problem(70.6%). Absence of training(44.5%). Conclusion and recommendation The study shows almost all study participants(100%) responded that there are barriers for upading research litrature into practice. Among the barriers identified by thisd study lack of understanding to interpret stastical term and jargon (84.9%) takes the highest percentage. As indicated by the study participant for suggested solutionhealth sector stakholders sould stand on improving accessibility that will used for improving litrature searching skill