Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Associated Factors of Nurses towards Postoperative Pain Management in Four Federal Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020
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2020-06
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Addis Abeba University
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Background: Effective pain management requires precise knowledge, attitude and
competent assessment skills. Nurses should have basic knowledge and develop a positive
attitude towards post-operative pain management. Little is known about the knowledge and
there is no evidence to understand the attitude gaps and nurses' practices of postoperative pain
management by nurses working in federal hospitals.
Objective: to examine the level of knowledge, attitude, practice and associated factors of
nurses towards POPM in four federal hospitals in Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2020.
Method: Institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 103 nurses at federal
hospitals. The total sample sizes were allocated proportionally based on the number of nurses
from each hospital. A simple random sampling technique was employed for the selection of
study participants. Data were collected by using self-administered structured questionnaire and
were checked, cleaned and entered into Epi data version 3.5 and imported to SPSS version 25.0
software for analysis. Associations between independent and dependent variables were
analyzed by using descriptive statistic & a binary logistic regression model.
Result: The overall finding of the study revealed that nurses had poor knowledge (51.5%),
favorable attitude (58.5%), and poor practice (48.5%)towards post-operative pain
management. Gender, training and favorable attitude (p-value=0.024, 0.003, 0.002
respectively) were found to be statistically significant with nurses knowledge of post-operative
pain management. Knowledge of nurses had significant association with attitudes of nurses.
Attitude, organizational protocol to pain management and knowledge of nurses had significant
associat ion wit h nurses’ pract ice of POPM.
Conclusion: The result of this study showed that nurses in federal hospitals have poor
knowledge, poor practice and favorable attitude towards post-operative pain management
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Pain management, nurses’, knowledge, Attitude and practice, postoperative pain