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Knowledge on Palliative Care and Associated Factors among Nurses in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND: Palliative care is a multidisciplinary team-based care for patients facing life-threatening illness and their families which addresses their physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs to improve the quality of care. There is a strategy for an increase in palliative care service...

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Autores principales: Getie, Addisu, Wondmieneh, Adam, Bimerew, Melaku, Gedefaw, Getnet, Demis, Asmamaw
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8093038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33986898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5557947
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author Getie, Addisu
Wondmieneh, Adam
Bimerew, Melaku
Gedefaw, Getnet
Demis, Asmamaw
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Wondmieneh, Adam
Bimerew, Melaku
Gedefaw, Getnet
Demis, Asmamaw
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description BACKGROUND: Palliative care is a multidisciplinary team-based care for patients facing life-threatening illness and their families which addresses their physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs to improve the quality of care. There is a strategy for an increase in palliative care services by integrating with the healthcare system. Therefore, this systematic review and meta-analysis was aimed to assess the overall pooled prevalence of nurses' knowledge towards palliative care in Ethiopia. METHOD: PubMed/MEDLINE, HINARI, EMBASE, Scopus, Google Scholar, and African Journals OnLine (AJOL) were the databases used to search for articles. Cochrane I(2) statistics and Egger's test were done to check heterogeneity and publication bias, respectively. Subgroup analysis by region, study period, and sample size was done due to the presence of heterogeneity. Sensitivity analysis was also done to detect the presence or absence of an influential study. RESULT: Nine studies with a total of 2709 study participants were included in the final analysis. The overall pooled prevalence of nurses' knowledge towards palliative care was 45.57% (95% CI: 35.27–55.87). Educational status and palliative care training were significantly associated factors with the level of nurses' knowledge towards palliative care. B.S. degree holder nurses (AOR = 3.01; 95% CI: 1.50–6.02) and nurses who had palliative care training (AOR = 4.64; 95% CI: 2.37–9.08) were found to be significantly associated factors with the nurses' level of knowledge. CONCLUSION: More than half of nurses had poor knowledge of palliative care. Educational status of nurses and palliative care training were significantly associated factors with the nurses' level of knowledge about palliative care. Therefore, palliative care training and improving nurses' careers through continuous professional development should be focused on regularly to improve nurses' knowledge about palliative care.
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spelling pubmed-80930382021-05-12 Knowledge on Palliative Care and Associated Factors among Nurses in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Getie, Addisu Wondmieneh, Adam Bimerew, Melaku Gedefaw, Getnet Demis, Asmamaw Pain Res Manag Review Article BACKGROUND: Palliative care is a multidisciplinary team-based care for patients facing life-threatening illness and their families which addresses their physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs to improve the quality of care. There is a strategy for an increase in palliative care services by integrating with the healthcare system. Therefore, this systematic review and meta-analysis was aimed to assess the overall pooled prevalence of nurses' knowledge towards palliative care in Ethiopia. METHOD: PubMed/MEDLINE, HINARI, EMBASE, Scopus, Google Scholar, and African Journals OnLine (AJOL) were the databases used to search for articles. Cochrane I(2) statistics and Egger's test were done to check heterogeneity and publication bias, respectively. Subgroup analysis by region, study period, and sample size was done due to the presence of heterogeneity. Sensitivity analysis was also done to detect the presence or absence of an influential study. RESULT: Nine studies with a total of 2709 study participants were included in the final analysis. The overall pooled prevalence of nurses' knowledge towards palliative care was 45.57% (95% CI: 35.27–55.87). Educational status and palliative care training were significantly associated factors with the level of nurses' knowledge towards palliative care. B.S. degree holder nurses (AOR = 3.01; 95% CI: 1.50–6.02) and nurses who had palliative care training (AOR = 4.64; 95% CI: 2.37–9.08) were found to be significantly associated factors with the nurses' level of knowledge. CONCLUSION: More than half of nurses had poor knowledge of palliative care. Educational status of nurses and palliative care training were significantly associated factors with the nurses' level of knowledge about palliative care. Therefore, palliative care training and improving nurses' careers through continuous professional development should be focused on regularly to improve nurses' knowledge about palliative care. Hindawi 2021-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8093038/ /pubmed/33986898 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5557947 Text en Copyright © 2021 Addisu Getie et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Getie, Addisu
Wondmieneh, Adam
Bimerew, Melaku
Gedefaw, Getnet
Demis, Asmamaw
Knowledge on Palliative Care and Associated Factors among Nurses in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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title_full Knowledge on Palliative Care and Associated Factors among Nurses in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
title_fullStr Knowledge on Palliative Care and Associated Factors among Nurses in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge on Palliative Care and Associated Factors among Nurses in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
title_short Knowledge on Palliative Care and Associated Factors among Nurses in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
title_sort knowledge on palliative care and associated factors among nurses in ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
topic Review Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8093038/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33986898
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5557947
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