Skip to main content

ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1498406
This article is part of the Research Topic The Role of Nursing in Public Health Promotion and Education View all 20 articles

Preoperative Patient Teaching Practices and Associated Factors among Nurses Working at Hospitals in West Shoa Zone, Ethiopia, 2022: Cross Sectional Study

Provisionally accepted
Lammi Atomsa Itana Lammi Atomsa Itana 1*Sidise Temesgen Beyene Sidise Temesgen Beyene 1Abebe Dechasa Dechasa Abebe Dechasa Dechasa 2mulatu Ayana mulatu Ayana 2Shewangizaw Amena Shewangizaw Amena 2Dawit Teklehymanot Teklehymanot Dawit Teklehymanot Teklehymanot 3Firaol Regea Firaol Regea 1
  • 1 Wollega University, Nekemte, Ethiopia
  • 2 Ambo University, Ambo, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
  • 3 Madda Walabu University, Bale Robe, Oromia, Ethiopia

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Introduction: Pre-operative teaching is fundamental nursing activity in which a nurse educates the patient about surgery and what to anticipate following the procedure. It is a process via which nurses give standard preoperative information to patients before surgery and it enable the patients to understand their diagnosis and treatment, actively participate in their own care, overcome feelings of incapacity in relation to their condition, regain health, and maintain home care. However, there is a dearth of studies that determine the extent of preoperative teaching practice in Ethiopia in general and in the study area in particular.Objective: To assess preoperative patient teaching practices and the factors associated with these practices among nurses working in hospitals in the West Shoa, Oromia region, Ethiopia, in 2022.Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 267 nurses from September 1 to September 30, 2022, at hospitals in the west Shoa zone. Two-stage simple random sampling technique was used to select study participants. Data were collected using a pretested and structured self-administered questionnaire. The quantitative data were checked and entered using Epidata version 4.6 and exported to SPSS version 26.0 for analysis. Bivariable and multivariable logistic analyses were performed, and p values of <0.05 at a 95% confidence interval were considered statistically significant.Result: A total of 253 nurses returned the entire questionnaire, yielding a response rate of 94.75%. The study enrolled 132 (52.2%) male, the highest percentage 231 (91.3%) of the participants were in the age group of 18-35, the majority of participants 152 (60.1%) were married and 164 (64.8%) were protestant. About 101(39.9%) participants demonstrated good preoperative teaching practice. Lack of teaching material, lack of training workload, time constraints, insufficient staffing, language barrier, severity of patient cases, patient and family"s anxiety and complexity of patients" status were significantly associated with preoperative patient teaching practice.The proportion of preoperative patient teaching practices among nurses working at hospitals in the West Shoa Zone was low. Concerned bodies should emphasize ways to improve preoperative teaching practice.

    Keywords: preoperative teaching, Practice, Nurses, Patient, Ethiopia

    Received: 18 Sep 2024; Accepted: 30 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Itana, Beyene, Dechasa, Ayana, Amena, Teklehymanot and Regea. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Lammi Atomsa Itana, Wollega University, Nekemte, Ethiopia

    Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.