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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2012.13.1.254

A University Hospital Nurses' Knowledge and Attitude about Cancer Pain Management  

Kim, Seon-Hwa (Department of Nursing, Taegu Science University)
Park, Sang-Youn (College of Nursing, Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.13, no.1, 2012 , pp. 254-263 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was performed to investigate a hospital nurses' knowledge and attitude about cancer pain management and to make use of base material for education. The research design was descriptive survey study, and the data were collected from 303 nurses who were working at a university hospital. A instrument study was the inventory consisting 107 questionnaires for cancer pain management. The data were analysed by SPSS WIN 18.0. The study showed that the percentage of correct answers for general knowledge about pain was 79.6%, for knowledge about cancer pain was 82.2%, for knowledge about analgesics use was 55.6%, for attitude about pain management was 65.2%, and the percentage of correct answers for each item was 70.7%. The knowledge about analgesics use was significant difference in age, education level, position, years of nursing practice, present place of working, years of present working place, pain education program experience, the attitude about pain management was significant difference in gender, education level and present place of working. Consequently it needs the persistent educational programs development and the clinical application to improve of nurses` knowledge and attitude about cancer pain management.
Keywords
Nurse; Cancer; Pain; Knowledge; Attitude;
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