Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Residents towards Patient Handover during Transitions of Care of Admitted Patients in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital
| dc.contributor.advisor | Worku, Aschalew(MD,Consultant Internist, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lemma, Eyosias | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-22T06:59:42Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-05T09:37:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-02-22T06:59:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-05T09:37:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract Background: A patient handover refers to the transfer of care from one care provider to the next and involves three aspects: a transfer of information, responsibility and authority. Researchers and hospitals have been implementing different standardized models of handing over patients and giving trainings to their staff on how to use this models. Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of residents currently doing their residency at TASH towards the effectiveness of currently implemented handing over system of admitted patients and use of standardized methods. Methods: A cross sectional survey was conducted which includes current residents at AAU, School of Health Science, using a structured questionnaire. Residents with previous attachment to the places where in-patient service is provided in TASH during the years 2018-2021 were included. The study was conducted from August 2021 – November 2021 G.C. They were provided with consent form to participate in the study and were asked to fill a structured questionnaire online. The data collection instruments was be coded and data was checked and entered using the software Microsoft Excel 2013. It was cleaned and edited accordingly and was exported to SPSS version 26.0 statistical package for analysis and checked for missing values before analysis. The Descriptive analysis was used frequency analysis. Result: This study showed that residents are knowledgeable (n=245, 90.8%) about the consequences of poor handover on patient outcome, however, they lack knowledge (n=245, 3.1%) when it comes to standardized methods of handing over patients. Their attitude towards the current method they are using to handover patients is not good as well (n=245, 72.7%). Rather they showed good attitude (n=245, 87.6%) towards change to a standardized and proper way of handover. They also feel positive about possible training of all residents on this standardized methods. When it comes to practice, this study showed a significant amount of residents reported as having poor practice (n=245, 42.5%). Recommendations and Conclusion: This survey has shown that poor handovers of patients during end of care are common in TASH and at times lead to bad patient outcome. It is therefore important to train and develop a system where standardized handovers are undertaken. Further studies can be done to compare if this new methods decrease the rate of patient harm as a result of poor handover. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/30244 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Abeba University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Patient handover,handing over system,patients | en_US |
| dc.title | Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Residents towards Patient Handover during Transitions of Care of Admitted Patients in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |