The Knowledge of Palliative Care and the Attitude Toward it among the Nurses at Sabia General Hospital 2018

Abstract

Methodology: For data collection, a self-administrative questionnaire was developed and used for assessment by the researcher. Nurses’ socio-demographic characteristics  such as their age, gender, nursing qualification, department of work, work experience, training  in caring terminally ill clients, and their knowledge of and attitude toward palliative care were assessed; the relation between socio demographic data and knowledge and attitude was also assessed. Results showed that respondents had fair knowledge of palliative care 27 (50.9%) and fair attitude 30 (56.6%). It was proved that there is a significant relation between knowledge and demographic data; p-value is 0.004. Conclusion: Nurses showed poor knowledge toward palliative care and half of them showed a fair attitude.