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How Well Ethiopian Parents Assess and Manage Their Children's Postoperative Pain: Descriptive Correlational Study

NCT06567171 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 102

Last updated 2024-08-22

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Summary

This study aims to evaluate the practice of mothers towards the evaluation and management of postoperative children's pain.According to this study, Parents displayed low to moderate levels of knowledge adequacy towards the use of pain relief methods in relation to their children's postoperative pain and pain management, which indicates the need to provide parents with more information regarding their children's postoperative pain management.

Conditions

  • Parent
  • Pain
  • Ethiopia
  • Hospital

Interventions

PROCEDURE

This descriptive correlational study was conducted among 102 parents with children aged between 2 and 12 undergoing elective surgical procedures.

This descriptive correlational study was conducted among 102 parents with children aged between 2 and 12 undergoing elective surgical procedures. Parental use of pain relief strategies (PURPS) and parental postoperative pain management (PPPM) tools were used to collect data on the adequacy of knowledge of the use of different pain relief strategies and the skill of parental pain assessment, respectively. We used Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationships between pain score given by parents and nurses. The statistical tests were performed at a 95% confidence interval and a 5% significance level.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wachemo University

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-08-12
Primary Completion
2022-08-12
Completion
2022-10-20

Countries

  • Ethiopia

Study Locations

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