Assessing Knowledge & Attitude of Health Professionals Towards Anesthesia and the Anesthetist's Role.

Misconceptions about anesthesia and anesthetists in the health professional community may limit anesthetists' participation in their roles. These misconceptions affect the morals of anesthetists since their activity will be limited only to operation theater and the community at large, who did not get the desired care. Improving health professionals' awareness of anesthesia will make it easier for anesthetists to practice their full role and to develop a sense of validation by having their importance acknowledged. Moreover, society will gate the care offered by the anesthetist in different places of medical care.

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Key information

Conditions

Knowledge Attitude Behavior

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Dessie comprehensive specilized hospital

Dessie, Amhara, 801103, Ethiopia

About this study

Data were collected using self-administered, pretested questionnaires prepared in english and then translated into amharic. The Amharic version of the questionnaire was assessed for compatibility with the english version by a group of people who converted it back to english and compared the converted versions. The questionnaire consists of three parts. The first part was about socio-demographic characteristics; the second part was about participants' knowledge about anesthesia; and the third part was about professionals' attitudes towards anesthesia. After informing each participant about the purpose of the study and obtaining informed consent, data collection began. After the questionnaires were filled out by the participants, the two trained data collectors compiled and checked the data for any conflicts that may have occurred during the data collection.

The development and translation of the questionnaire was the most challenging task, and it was developed by both the anesthetists and anesthesiologists. The questionnaire was pre-tested on 25 randomly selected health professionals. After pre-testing, some questions were modified to make them more understandable.

Attitude-related questions were answered as strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree, and none. the investigators prepared a total of 15 knowledge-related questions, of them 10 were closed-ended and could be scored objectively.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

All health professionals in Dessie comprehensive specialized hospital who are voluntary to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Group who are not voluntary,
Anesthetists/anesthesiologists
other institution medical staff worked as a contract at Dessie hospital

Treatment and study plan

no intervation

Behavioral

it is observational, no intervention was taken

Primary outcomes

To determine health professionals' knowledge on anesthesia service

Time frame: from may 1 to septamber 30 2022

The knowledge outcome was measured by dividing the correct answer to the total questions(15) as a percentage. Percentage scores <50% are poor, 50%-75% moderate, and >75% good.
To determine health professionals' attitude on anesthesia service

Time frame: from may 1 to septamber 30 2022

The attitude was measured by the Likert scale as agree, strongly agree, disagree, strongly disagree, or none. The likert scale is used to measure the percentage of positive or negative attitudes toward certain issues. Agree and strongly agree are considered as relatively similar responses while disagree and strongly disagree as similar responses. . Percentage scores <50% are poor, 50%-75% moderate, and >75% good.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Wollo University

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Registry information

Official study title

Assessing Knowledge and Attitude of Health Professionals Towards Anesthesia and Anesthetist's Role in the Health Delivery System at Dessie Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, From May 1st to September 30th, 2022, G.C.

Important dates

Study start: 2022
Primary completion: 2022
Study completion: 2022
First posted: Aug 1, 2023
Registry last updated: Aug 7, 2023

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