Nurses knowledge and attitude regarding pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Nurses’ knowledge and attitudes about adult post-operative pain assessment and management: cross sectional study in Qatar

“…In this study, K&A scores were not signi cantly associated with years of experience. This is consistent with the ndings across 18 studies which found that years of experience was poorly associated with K&A (17). In contrast, Al-Shaer et al found that nurses who worked for 16 years or more in their unit scored signi cantly higher K&A scores than nurses who worked for one to ve years in their units (33,37) This study found no association between K&A scores and level of education, consistent with the metaanalysis (17), a study on nurses working in a cancer care centre in Qatar (38), and studies on nurses in Jordan (39), Italy (32) and the USA (33,37).…”

“…This is consistent with the ndings across 18 studies which found that years of experience was poorly associated with K&A (17). In contrast, Al-Shaer et al found that nurses who worked for 16 years or more in their unit scored signi cantly higher K&A scores than nurses who worked for one to ve years in their units (33,37) This study found no association between K&A scores and level of education, consistent with the metaanalysis (17), a study on nurses working in a cancer care centre in Qatar (38), and studies on nurses in Jordan (39), Italy (32) and the USA (33,37). In contrast, studies on nurses in Jordan ( 22) Palestine (27), Iceland (40), USA (30), Canada (41), and Turkey (26) which found that higher levels of education were associated with higher K&A scores.…”

“…This study found no correlation between nurses' pain knowledge and attitudes and any potential predictor variables in this study. This nding was largely consistent with the meta-analysis of 18 studies, which found that K&A scores were not associated with age, sex, or professional years of experience (17).…”

“…Similar to our study, Al Qadire and Al Khalaileh also found no association between K&A scores and pain education (22). In contrast, the recent meta-analysis found that K&A scores were associated with previous pain education in 11 out of 18 studies (17,25,35,36).…”

“…The average K&A score was 47.8% and no participants scored at or above the pass mark of 80% (16). Although these results are poor and cause for concern, they are consistent with the results of a recent systematic review and meta-analysis of 18 studies involving 7942 nurses, which found that the average K&A score was 52.9% (95% CI: 47.2-58.6) (17).…”