Analysis of nurses’ knowledge and attitude towards paediatric pain and its management

Jolita Dubauskienė. Analysis of nurses’ knowledge and attitude towards paediatric pain and its management. Master thesis. Supervisor: Dr. Jurita Gulbinienė, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Medical Academy, Faculty of Nursing, Department of Nursing and Care, Kaunas, 2019; 65 p. Aim: to evaluate pediatric nurses’ knowledge and attitude towards pediatric pain and its management in different departments of pediatrics. Objectives: 1. To analyze and compare pediatric nurses’ knowledge and attitude towards pediatric pain and its management in different departments of pediatrics. 2. To investigate and compare pediatric nurses’ knowledge and attitude towards pediatric pain and its in different departments of pediatrics. 3. To analyze and compare clinical application of nurses’ knowledge and attitude towards pediatric pain and its management, and to compare it between different departments of pediatrics. Methods: The study was performed between January and March 2018 in Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Hospital Kauno klinikos, Kaunas Clinical Hospital and Republican Hospital of Kaunas. Nurses working in departments such as, paediatric internal medicine, paediatric surgery, paediatric emergency medicine and intensive care, were included into this study. A standardized questionnaire “Paediatric nurses’ knowledge and attitude towards pain” was provided to all the participants (n=234; 97.8 % of all the nurses). A p-value of