Volume 28, Issue 154, December 2024

Assessment of knowledge and awareness among nurses of a tertiary care hospital regarding the management of acute poisoning: A cross-sectional study

Saleem Zaidan Alharbi, Sultan Yahya Mobarki, Ahamed Mohammed Alghamdi, Mohammed Abaid Alharbi, Abdullah Tareq Alhemiary

Medical services center, King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: Poisoning is a serious global health issue that results in a high rate of morbidity and death. The distribution of poisoning agents determines the patterns of acute poisoning in different locations. Aim: This study aims to assess the knowledge and awareness regarding the management of acute poisoning among nurses in Saudi Arabia, so that the participants with unsatisfactory knowledge could be trained to manage such cases more efficiently. Methods: A cross-sectional study included a self-administered questionnaire. A sevenquestion questionnaire to ascertain the relationship between the participants' total knowledge score and independent variables such as age, education, experience, and training status. Results: 408 nurses with a mean age of 38.6 years (SD = 8.1) completed the questionnaire. Age and experience were significant predictors of the total score, with p-values of 0.034 and <0.001, respectively. Specifically, age was found to have a negative association (β = -0.109), whereas experience had a positive association (β = 0.326) with the total score. In contrast, education (β = -0.027, p = 0.636) and training (β = 0.042, p = 0.659) were not significantly associated with the total score. Conclusion: According to our findings, experience and age were both significant predictors of the final score.

Keywords: Acute poisoning, nurses, knowledge, awareness

Medical Science, 2024, 28, e147ms3468

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v28i154.e147ms3468

Published: 07 December 2024