Assessment Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Nurses towards Neonatal Pain Management and Determinant factors at Public Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021.
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2021-08
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Addis Abeba University
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Background: Pain is a significant global problem in the field of health.Recent advances in
neurobiology, clinical medicine and neonatal research have established that the fetus and
newborn may experience acute, established, and chronic pain and that controlling pain has short-
and long-term benefits for all newborns (1)(2). Despite the growing knowledge about pain
assessment and intervention, the neonatal pain remains unrecognized and undertreated (3).
Appropriate management of neonatal painprevents unnecessary hospital stay and suffering them
from pain. In clinical settings, nurses play a vital role in pain assessment and management and
must be knowledgeable regarding how to best access and manage the pain.
Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the neonatal ICU nurses’ knowledge and
practiceand factors associated regarding neonatal pain management at public hospital of Addis
Ababa,Ethiopia, 2020.
Method: -Institutional based cross-sectional study design will be used to collect data from
fourselected public hospitals in Addis Ababa, from 21July-22August 2021. Simple random
samplingwill be used to recruit study participants using structured, self-administered
questionnaire. Data will be cleaned and entered using SPSS version 26.0 software and data will
analysis.
Result:Majority (98(87.5.0%)) and (87(77.7%)) of the nurse had good overall knowledge and
attitude. However, one third (42(37.5%) of the respondents have good practice.
Conclusion:Most nurses had poor practice in managing neonatal pain but majority of nurses had
adequate knowledge concerning neonatal pain management. There was gap between their
knowledge and practice.
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Knowledge, attitude, practice, nurses, pain, NICU