Assessment of knowledge, attitude, practice and factors associated with childhood fever management among nurses working in paediatric emergency at governmental hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2019-02
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Addis Abeba University
Abstract
Background: Fever is a common childhood problem deals with medical practitioners, nurses
and parents in both hospital and community settings. However, the nursing management of
fever in children is often not based on research and remains inconsistent in practice.
Ultimately reducing or preventing hospitalized children’s suffering from fever through
improved nursing practice is not clearly studied in Ethiopia.
Objectives; To assess the knowledge, attitude, practice and factors associated of childhood
fever management among nurses working in paediatric emergency settings of six selected
governmental hospitals, at AA city from October 28/2019 – June 21/2019.
Methods: Institutional based cross sectional study will be conducted on nurses at six
governmental hospitals from April 1
st
/2019 – May 15/2019. From the selected governmental
hospitals, the total 124 nurses will be involved as study samples i.e. survey method. A selfadminister
questioner
adapted
from
a
research
conducted
at
Cairo
city
and
Australia
to
collect
data
on nurses KAP to fever management of child.To ensure the validity, reliability of the
data collection tool, pre-test will be done on 5% of the total out of being sampled at Yekatit
12 hospital.
The data will be coded, edited, entered, and cleaned by Epi-data manager version 4.2 then
exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis with a p value <0.05 will be considered as
statistically significant.
Work plan: The duration of study starts from title selection (October 2019) up to the theses
defence (June 21/2019).every activities which are listed in the work plan will be performed
according the given time period.
Budget: The total budget of the study will be costs around 26,383 Ethiopian birr, this total
budget will be broken down into many activities.
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knowledge, attitude, practice, emergency, child, fever, management and nurse