Assessment Of Knowledge And Practice Of Oxygen Therapy And Associated Factors Among Nurses In Public Hospitals In West Shewa Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia

Abstract

Background:- Nurses have independent mandates in the health care team in maintaining proper oxygen saturation level and recognize best approaches to deliver oxygen for specific patients. Objective: To assess knowledge and practices of oxygen therapy and associated factors among nurses in public hospitals of west shewa zone, Oromia, Ethiopia, 2021 Methods:-An institutional based cross-sectional study design was employed from Sept10 to October 10/2021 among 418 nurses working in public hospitals of West Shewa Zone .the study participants were selected by using simple random sampling technique. Data were collected using structured self-administered questionnaire. The collected data were coded and entered into Epi-data version 4.6 and then exported to SPSS version 25 for analysis. Binary logistic regression model analysis was done. Odds ratio was calculated at 95% CI to measure an association and p-value < 0.05 was used to declare statistical significance. Results: Data were obtained from 413 Nurses with response rate of 99%. The overall knowledge level of the nurses on Oxygen Therapy is 64.9% (95%CI: 60.0-69.5%) while the overall practice level on Oxygen Therapy is 14% (95%CI: 10.8-17.8%). Nurse who had masters attainment were 8.17% more likely to be knowledgeable on Oxygen therapy when compared with Diploma AOR= (8.17, 95% CI; 1.057-5.704). Nurses who had get Training for procedure of oxygen therapy were 2.3 times more likely to be knowledgeable than nurses who didn‟t get training on oxygen therapy procedure (AOR=2.294, 95% CI, 1.478-3.563). In addition, Nurses who are working in hospitals where guideline about oxygen therapy is available were 7 times more likely practice than nurses who have been working in hospitals where guideline is not available(AOR=7.192, 95% CI; 3.050-16.985). Conclusion: This study finding showed that practice of Oxygen therapy is low among nurses working in Public Hospital in West Shewa Zone. Having Bachelor of Science degree, having Master degree, availability of oxygen therapy guideline and training on oxygen therapy procedure are found to be significantly associated with knowledge and practice of nurses about Oxygen therapy. Therefore, West Shoa zonal health office should increase the knowledge and practice of nurses on Oxygen therapy through increasing educational status and training for nurses.