Assessment of knowledge, attitude, practice and factors associated with childhood fever management among nurses working in paediatric emergency at governmental hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dr.Debebe, Finot(assistant professor) | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gebre, Kibatu (MSC, lecturer) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tukue, Gebremeskel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-02T11:05:53Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T09:38:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-04-02T11:05:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T09:38:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-02 | |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/21240 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Abeba University | en_US |
| dc.subject | knowledge, attitude, practice, emergency, child, fever, management and nurse | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of knowledge, attitude, practice and factors associated with childhood fever management among nurses working in paediatric emergency at governmental hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |