Assessing Knowledge & Attitude of Health Professionals Towards Anesthesia and the Anesthetist's Role.

Knowledge Clinical Trial

Official title:

Assessing Knowledge and Attitude of Health Professionals Towards Anesthesia and Anesthetist's Role in the Health Delivery System at Dessie Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, From May 1st to September 30th, 2022, G.C.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05968872
• Other study ID #: 6525
• Status: Completed
• Start date: May 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: August 2023
• Source: Wollo University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Clinical Trial Summary

Misconceptions about anesthesia and anesthetists in the health professional community may limit anesthetists' participation in their roles. These misconceptions affect the morals of anesthetists since their activity will be limited only to operation theater and the community at large, who did not get the desired care. Improving health professionals' awareness of anesthesia will make it easier for anesthetists to practice their full role and to develop a sense of validation by having their importance acknowledged. Moreover, society will gate the care offered by the anesthetist in different places of medical care.

Description:

Data were collected using self-administered, pretested questionnaires prepared in english and then translated into amharic. The Amharic version of the questionnaire was assessed for compatibility with the english version by a group of people who converted it back to english and compared the converted versions. The questionnaire consists of three parts. The first part was about socio-demographic characteristics; the second part was about participants' knowledge about anesthesia; and the third part was about professionals' attitudes towards anesthesia. After informing each participant about the purpose of the study and obtaining informed consent, data collection began. After the questionnaires were filled out by the participants, the two trained data collectors compiled and checked the data for any conflicts that may have occurred during the data collection.

The development and translation of the questionnaire was the most challenging task, and it was developed by both the anesthetists and anesthesiologists. The questionnaire was pre-tested on 25 randomly selected health professionals. After pre-testing, some questions were modified to make them more understandable.

Attitude-related questions were answered as strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree, and none. the investigators prepared a total of 15 knowledge-related questions, of them 10 were closed-ended and could be scored objectively.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 252
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All health professionals in Dessie comprehensive specialized hospital who are voluntary to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Group who are not voluntary,

2. Anesthetists/anesthesiologists

3. other institution medical staff worked as a contract at Dessie hospital

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Attitude
• Knowledge

Intervention

Behavioral:
• no intervation
it is observational, no intervention was taken

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Ethiopia	Dessie comprehensive specilized hospital	Dessie	Amhara

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Wollo University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Ethiopia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	To determine health professionals' knowledge on anesthesia service	The knowledge outcome was measured by dividing the correct answer to the total questions(15) as a percentage. Percentage scores <50% are poor, 50%-75% moderate, and >75% good.	from may 1 to septamber 30 2022
Primary	To determine health professionals' attitude on anesthesia service	The attitude was measured by the Likert scale as agree, strongly agree, disagree, strongly disagree, or none. The likert scale is used to measure the percentage of positive or negative attitudes toward certain issues. Agree and strongly agree are considered as relatively similar responses while disagree and strongly disagree as similar responses. . Percentage scores <50% are poor, 50%-75% moderate, and >75% good.	from may 1 to septamber 30 2022