Assessment of knowledge, attitude, practice and associated factors towards fluid balance monitoring among nurses working in adult ICU of federally administered government hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020.
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2020-06
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Addis Abeba University
Abstract
Fluid Balance is net result of intake and output of fluid to provide metabolic processes Background:
to function correctly. In Intensive care unit the patient needs special consideration for Fluid balance
monitoring. Fluid balance monitoring is very vital component in intensive care unit for management
and good patient prognosis. Recent studies show negative fluid balance and positive fluid balance
adversely affects patient morbidity, mortality and patient length of stay in hospitals.
Even if there is some related researches but still little is known regarding fluid balance monitoring.
Objectives: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses working in ICU towards fluid
balance monitoring and associated factors in federally administered government hospitals, Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia from October 2019 to June 2020.
Methods: institution based quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted from February to April,
2020 among federally administered government hospitals in Addis Ababa. Well-structured
questionnaire for socio-Demographic characteristics, attitude, knowledge and checklist for practice
was adopted from literatures with little modification. The data was entered into Epi-data, version 4.6
then analyzed by using SPSS 24 Software. Finally the result was computed and interpreted through use
of descriptive statistics. Association between variables was analyzed by using logistic regression at pvalue
<0.2
and
<0.05
considering
as
significant
respectively.
Result: - out of 166 study participants the response rate was 96.4% with 28 ± 3.5 years mean age of
study participants. Around 85(53.12%) of study participants were female in sex. Majority of
participants 108(67.5%) had less than 5-years work experience. From all study participants around 85(
53.1%), 85(53.1%) and 90( 56.1%) of Nurses working in ICU had good knowledge, negative attitude
and good practice toward fluid balance monitoring for critically ill patients respectively. Strong
association and positive relationships were found between practice and knowledge
Conclusion and recommendation:- The knowledge and practice of study participants found relatively
good which was above the mean score but the perception were below the mean score. So that, better to
build capacity of nurses working in ICU on fluid balance monitoring was recommended for the
responsible body.
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Knowledge, practice, fluid balance, monitoring, attitude, input/output