Conhecimento de enfermeiros residentes sobre o manejo da dor oncológica: estudo transversal

Abstract

Aims: to evaluate the knowledge of resident nurses regarding themanagement of cancer pain and the associated sociodemographic and professional variables. Method: a cross-sectional study with a target population of nurses who were enrolled in a multi-professional oncology residency program. The nurses’ knowledge was evaluated through the “Nurses’ knowledge about the cancer pain management    –WHO” instrument. Poisson regression with robust variance was used to analyze the association between the variables. Results: most (68.2%) of the interviewees presented inadequate knowledge.  Adequate  knowledge  was  dependent  on  training  time, as  individuals  with more than one year of training (PR=0.14, CI 95%, 0.02-0.97) were less likely to present inadequate  knowledge.  Conclusions:  there  was  a  predominance  of  ignorance  about the management  of  cancer  pain  and  adequate  knowledge  was  dependent  on  professional training time.