Dr.Girma, Biruk(MD, Assistant Professor)Melaku, Birhanu(M.Sc.)Eshetu, Rekik2020-05-212023-11-052020-05-212023-11-052019-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/21253Background:-Physical Trauma/Injury is defined as a physical damage to a human being caused by intolerable transfer of energy. It can be mechanical, thermal, electrical, chemical, or radiation energy or by the sudden absence of heat or oxygen. Objective: - The objective of this study is to assess the knowledge and practice of acute trauma care among health professionals working at selected government health centers in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, 2019 from March 11-April 8/2019. Methods:-Institutional based cross sectional study design was utilized to assess knowledge and practice of emergency unit health professionals found in ten sub cities of Addis Ababa towards acute trauma care. Structured, Pretested and self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were imported into Epidata 4.4 and analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. The alpha level was set at 0.05 to determine statistical significance. Result: - There were 118 participants. From these, majority of the participants73 (61.9 %) were Nurses and females‟ accounts for 72 (61.0 %). Majorities; 77(65.3 %) of health professionals had college degree and among them 73 (61.9%) had more than 4 years‟ work experience. About 90 (76%) of the respondent had trauma related training once in their clinical career. Nearly half of the respondents (47.5%) had good knowledge scores, with the mean score of 10.81 (SD = 2.86) and Majority, 82(69.5%) of respondents scored poor in practical assessment with Mean score of 3.65(SD= 1.6).Those who have work-experience for more than four years [p=.011, (CI= (037, 0.653)] were significantly associated with poor knowledge of health professionals related to acute trauma care. Conclusion: - In conclusion, emergency unit health professionals in these health centers demonstrated overall unsatisfactory levels of knowledge and practice. It is clear that ongoing education on how to manage trauma victim must be periodically under taken to enhance and update health professionals‟ knowledge about current and emerging acute trauma care practice.en-USknowledge, practice, health care professionalsThesis