Perceived and Actual Knowledge of Diabetes Mellitus and Associated Factors among Nurses at Selected Public Hospitals in Addis Ababa, 2024
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2024-06-11
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic diseases affecting huge number of people worldwide. Nurses are expected to have adequate knowledge of diabetes for effective management and care of patients. But studies showed that there are gaps in actual and perceived level knowledge of diabetes of nurses.
Objective: The objective of this study was to assess perceived and actual knowledge of diabetes mellitus and associated factors among nurses at selected Hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Methods: Cross-sectional study design was used. Simple random sampling method was used to select the 3 hospitals as well as the 358 nurses from the selected hospitals. The adopted Diabetes Basic Knowledge tool and Diabetes Self Reporting tool were used to assess actual and perceived knowledge of diabetes. SPSS software version 25 was used to analyze the data. Percentages, mean, standard deviation were used to describe the data. The t- test, the Pearson’s correlation, and the regression analysis were used to analyze.
Results. Findings: The mean score of perceived knowledge was 62 ± 4.01 and the mean score of actual knowledge was 28.2 ± 5.20. The regression analysis has shown that for a 1 year increase in age there is -0.126 point decrease in the perceived knowledge of diabetes the nurses participating in this study (β = -0.126, p = 0.015). Participants with diploma level of education had 3.534 times higher perceived knowledge of diabetes than the other educational category (B = 3.534, 95%CI = 1.627, 5.440, p = 0.000). An increase in work experience by 1 year is associated with a decrease in -0.126 point perceived knowledge of diabetes (β = -0.126, p = 0.015). But, the regression analysis has not shown any association between the independent variables with the actual knowledge of diabetes among nurses.
Conclusion: Based on the findings of the study it was concluded that nurses have high perceived knowledge of diabetes but lower actual knowledge of diabetes; and there is significant gap between perceived and actual knowledge of diabetes mellitus among nurses at the selected hospitals of Addis Ababa. However, the study showed that there is no significant association of demographic variables with actual knowledge of diabetes. Based on the conclusion it was recommended that nurses should be encouraged to update themselves and the hospitals should prepare trainings and workshops to increase actual diabetic knowledge of nurses.
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Actual Knowledge of Diabetes Mellitus