Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of anesthesia providers towards post operative nausea and vomiting at tikur anbessa specialized hospital.
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2020-11
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Addis Abeba University
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Background: Evidence based knowledge, attitude and practice of anesthesia providers
towards postoperative nausea and vomiting management is essential to improve hospital
service as well as patient care.
Objective: the objective of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice
of anesthesia providers working at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital towards postoperative
nausea
and
vomiting.
Method: Institutional based cross-sectional study was employed among anesthesia
providers at TASH from September to October 2020.
Single population proportion
formula was utilized to calculate sample size of the study participants and the final
sample size was 111. The study participants were selected after proportional allocation
was done among the different anaesthesia providers based on their educational level. The
data was collected by self-administered questionnaire and entered into Epi-data and
exported to SPSS version 26 for analysis. Descriptive statistics, bi-variable and
multivariable logistic regression analysis were done to identify factors associated with
the knowledge, attitude and practice level of study participants.
Result: A total of 111 study subjects were participated in the study of which 65.5 % (n
=73) were male with male to female ratio of 1.921:1. The result showed that 58.6% (n=
65), 61.3% (n = 68) and 39.6% ( n = 44) of study participants had good knowledge,
positive attitude and good practice towards PONV management respectively.
Educational level of anesthesia providers was a factor significantly associated with
knowledge, attitude and practice of anesthesia providers towards management of PONV.
Conclusion and recommendation: Over all educational level of anesthesia providers
was a factor significantly affecting the knowledge, attitude and practice of anesthesia
providers towards management of PONV. Even though majority of anesthesia providers
had good knowledge and positive attitude towards management of PONV practice was
lacking. Anesthesiologists were having good knowledge, positive attitude and good
practice
than other level of anesthesia providers at TASH .
We recommend
department of anesthesia, critical care and pain medicine to prepare
training
, protocols and guidelines for effective management of PONV in the future.
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Anesthesia providers,postoperative nausea, vomiting