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    Assessment of knowledge and practice towards enteral nutrition and associated factors among nurses who are working at Adult intensive care unit of governmental hospitals located in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia.
    (Addis Abeba University, 2019-06) Hadera, Tsige; Tuli, Wagari ( MSC in EMCCN); Dr.Worku, Tigist(Assistance professor of Emergency and critical care medicine)
    Background: The purpose of this study was to describe current tube feeding knowledge and Practices and associated factors to aim appropriate quality improvement interventions. The Synergy model of patient care was used as a conceptual basis for this study. Methods: A cross-sectional study was used to assess knowledge and practice of enteral nutrition among nurses who works in ICUs of governmental hospitals in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia. A total of 209 nurses that met the inclusion criteria, 192 (92% response rate) responded to the questionnaire. A self-administered data collection method was used and undertaken on May 2019. Results: More than three fourth 167 (87 %) of respondents had poor knowledge of enteral nutrition and the result revealed that only 21(11%) have good practice. Participants who are first degree holder were less likely to had adequate knowledge by 76/100 than MSc. Holders. (AOR = .240, 95% CI: (.61, .936). Participants in the age group of 20-28 were less likely to had good practice by 98% on enteral nutrition than age group of 46-61 (AOR = 0.023, 95% CI: (0.001,0.523). and nurses who got in school nutrition training were 2 times higher to had good practice on enteral nutrition than didn’t got. (AOR = 1.951, 95% CI: (.063, .601). Also participants who were aware of protocol had 3 time of good practice than not aware of protocol about enteral nutrition. (AOR =3.401, 95% CI: (1.186, 9.789) Conclusions and recommendation: Although the improvement of nurses' knowledge and practices regarding enteral nutrition will directly or indirectly lead to reduce the complications and side effects related to enteral feeding in the critical care units, Nurses have remarkable gaps and alarming skill performance related NGT feeding. Therefore periodic on-job and pre-service training regarding enteral nutrition , guidelines as well protocol should be provided to all ICU nurses and regular supportive supervision by experts is also needed to sensitize, update and motivate staffs to provide safe nutritional support in all intensive care units s.