Knowledge, Attitude, Practices and Obstacles to Provide Urinary incontinence Care among Nurses

Abstract

Purpose: Nurses are personalities who stand with patients at all times to listen and solve their problems. Excellent knowledge, good practices and positive attitude of nurses proves very effective for improving patients with urinary incontinence in a mannered way. The study objective was, (a) evaluate the knowledge, attitudes and practices among nurses of urinary incontinence, (b) reveal the relationship between knowledge, attitudes and demographic characteristics and (c) evaluate obstacles faced by nurses during urinary incontinence care.
 Methodology: A cross-sectional study was accompanied in a government tertiary care hospital in Lahore, Pakistan. To analysis the variables statistical packages for social sciences version 25 was used. Pearson correlation test was used to correlate the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding urinary incontinence. Less than P>0.05 is significant.
 Findings: 164 nurses contributed in the studies and 157 completed and return the survey questioner, with return rate of 95.7%. Of those, 117(74.5%) were female nurses and 40(25.5%) were male nurses. There is a significant correlation found between knowledge with attitude items 0.046 and knowledge with practice items 0.039. The study respondents have good knowledge, positive attitude but wrong practices regarding urinary incontinence.
 Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: It is concluded that Nurses have good knowledge, positive attitude but wrong practices that require special training or workshops to managing and treating incontinence more efficiently. This helps to bring significant improvement in urinary incontinence care and helps to lower the heath care cost. Such clinical guidelines need to be made within the organizations to manage a significant proportion of patients with urinary incontinence.
 Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude, Practices, Obstacles, Urinary incontinence, Nurses

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“…The cross-sectional design of the study precludes the establishment of causality. Additionally, the use of self-reported questionnaires may have introduced response biases, and the sample was limited to young females in Lahore, which may not be generalizable to other populations or regions (17)(18)(19). Despite these limitations, the study provides valuable insights into the current state of awareness and knowledge about UI and its treatments among young females.…”