Effect of educational intervention on nurses knowledge about palliative care: Quasi-experimental study
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Tarih
2021
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Elsevier Sci Ltd
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
The aim of the study was to determine the level of knowledge of registered nurses about palliative care and to determine the effect of educational intervention on this level of knowledge in Turkey. The study was a quasi-experimental study and consists of 136 nurses. The study was conducted between April and June 2019 in a university hospital in Malatya, Turkey. Nurse are educated on the definition, history, and philosophy of palliative care, the responsibilities of palliative care nurses, symptom management, and end of life care. The education was applied in five sessions. Each session took approximately 40 min and sessions were conducted once a week. Data were collected before and after the education via nurse identification form developed by the research team and the Palliative Care Knowledge Test. It was determined that the nurses received 8.9 +/- 1.1 out of 20 points before and 17.5 +/- 1.9 points after the education. There was a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of nurses before and after training (p < 0.001). It was found that educational intervention has a large effect (Cohen's d = 5.540) on nurses' knowledge about palliative care. It was determined that educational intervention was an effective way to improve nurses' knowledge about palliative care.
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Palliative care, Knowledge, Education, Nurse, Research, Quasi-experimental study
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Nurse Education in Practice
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Q1
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Q1
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51
