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Healthcare providers’ knowledge, attitude, practice and associated factors towards pain management at Debremarkos referral hospital, Gojjam, Northwest Ethiopia.

Worku Mekonnen Sefefe, Girma Alem Getie Wubetu Woyraw Wondie Temesgen Agegnehu Abebe, Abatneh Feleke Agegnehu, Endale Gebreegziabher Gebremedhn

Background: Pain is one of the most common health problems worldwide, particularly in resource limited settings. Under treated postoperative increases in the length of hospital stay of patients and perioperative complications, and patient dissatisfaction with medical care. This study aimed to assess the healthcare providers’ knowledge, attitude, practice and associated factors towards pain management at Debremarkos referral hospital, 2019.

Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted using a pretested self-administered questionnaire. After data was checked for completeness, coded, entered in to Epi data 3.1, and transformed to SPSS version 20 statistical software for analysis. Both bivariate and multivariate logistic regression model used to identify the variables which had association with the dependent variable.

Result: Out of 381 healthcare workers (HCWs), 346 were included in the study with a response rate of 90.8%. The majority (n=185, 53.3%) of study participants had inadequate knowledge about pain management. Medical doctors (94.5%, n=69/73) were the most knowledgeable professionals followed by anaesthetist (92.8%, n=13/14) and lastly pharmacist (21.4%, n=6/28). The majority of the respondents (n=177, 51.3 %) had unfavourable attitude towards pain management.

Additionally, most of the respondents (77.5 %) had poor pain management practice. Access for pain assessment tool (AOR=11.02, CI=2.82-43.00) and workload (AOR=12.50, CI=5.52-28.31) had association with pain management practice. Moreover, 217 (62.7%) of the respondents didn’t assess the patients after analgesia drug administration.