Final year student’s knowledge of pain management: A survey of nursing schools in Oyo state Nigeria
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical and Health Research - Year 2019, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: Literature is replete with studies on final year nursing students’ knowledge on pain assessment and management across the world. This has not been studied in Nigeria. Therefore, it was the interest of the researchers to expand the frontier of knowledge to study the final year nursing students’ knowledge of pain management in Oyo state Nigeria Method: A descriptive cross-sectional design was used to examine the students’ knowledge about pain, pain assessment and pain management. The study setting included a federal (UCH), state (Eleyele) and private (Bowen) nursing schools in Oyo state. A self- structured questionnaire developed from peer reviewed literature was used to collect data from 121 final year students in the three schools of nursing. The data was analysed by descriptive statistics and analysis of variance via the statistical product service solution (SPSS) version 23. Statistical significant was taken at P-Value less than 0.05 Result: The mean age of the respondents was 21.6±2.4. The students demonstrated adequate knowledge of pain, pain assessment and pain management with the mean knowledge score of 9.5±1.1, 9.0±1.3, 7.5±1.4 respectively. Only 1.6% had poor knowledge of pain management. There was a significant relationship between the participants school of training and their knowledge of pain management (P-Value = 0.045) Conclusion: The final year students demonstrated adequate knowledge about pain management, yet there is need for reevaluation of the pain content of the nursing school programme curriculum especially in the area of pain physiology and pharmacology.
Authors and Affiliations
Kolawole Damilare Ogundeji, Aminat Adeyemo, Kehinde F Akinyemi, Samson Omowumi
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP582088
- DOI -
- Views 147
- Downloads 0
Chronic use of anatcid-proton pump inhibitor precipitates renal damage
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects approximately 13.6% of adults in India, is associated with a substantially increased risk of death and cardiovascular events and accounts for a disproportionately large burden on Medi...
Prevention of nausea &vomiting after laparoscopic cholecystectomy by administration of Droperidol and Metoclopramide
Many of the patients have described that averting of PONV is of higher distress than escaping post-operative pain. PONV is also related with deferred release from the recovery room and persistent hospital care and, conse...
Comparative evaluation of analgesic efficacy of morphine, Butorphanol and fentanyl along with local Anaesthetics for management of post-operative pain
Most patients who undergo surgical procedures experience acute postoperative pain, but evidence suggests that less than half report adequate postoperative pain relief. Many preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative...
Surrogacy in India: Current Perspectives
Surrogacy is a method or agreement whereby a woman agrees to carry a pregnancy for another person or persons, who will become the newborn child's parent(s) after birth It refers refers to a contract in which a woman carr...
Palmar dermatoglyphic and breast cancer: A possible correlation
Introduction: Dermatoglyphic is the scientific study of the pattern of epidermal ridges. Apart from use of dermatoglyphics in predicting the diagnosis of genetic disorders, it is used in forensic science. Breast cancer i...