Nursing practice on Non-Pharmacological Pain Management in Ethiopia, 2017
Received Date: Aug 20, 2020 / Accepted Date: Sep 02, 2020 / Published Date: Sep 09, 2020
Abstract
Purpose: To assess nursing practice on non-pharmacological pain management and its associated factors in health institutions in North West, Ethiopia, 2017.
Methodology: An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted among 583 randomly selected nurses from 10th April 2017 to 10th May 2017. A pre-tested, structured and self-administered questionnaire was used. Multivariable logistic regression was employed to determine predictors of the outcome variable. P-value <0.05 at 95% confidence interval was considered as significant.
Results: About 64% of the nurses had a satisfactory level of practice in the thermal regulation application, but on the rest types of non-pharmacological pain management, nurses had an unsatisfactory level of practice. Age, level of education, years of experience and having previous class on non-pharmacological pain management were the main determinants of nurses’ practice of non-pharmacological pain management in multivariable logistic regression model. Therefore, this study concludes that many factors were interwoven to affect nursing practice on non-pharmacological pain management which intern needs multi-sectorial collaborations.
Keywords: Nurse; Practice; Non-pharmacological; Pain management; Ethiopia
Citation: Kerie S, Workineh Y, Menberu M (2020) Nursing practice on Non- Pharmacological Pain Management in Ethiopia, 2017. J Community Med Health Educ 10: 693. Doi: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000693
Copyright: © 2020 Kerie S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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