Assessment of knowledge of blood transfusion and its associated factors among nurses and midwives at public hospitals in Ethiopia: Cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nurses and midwives administer blood to the patient, however, the status of knowledge of nurses and midwives to deliver safe blood transfusions in the current setting needs to be investigated.

Objective

To assess knowledge of blood transfusion and its associated factors among nurses, and midwives at public hospitals in West Shoa, Ethiopia, 2021.

Method

An institutional-based cross-sectional study was carried out among 278 randomly selected nurses and midwives working in public hospitals of West Shoa from August 1 to 30, 2021. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire to evaluate knowledge of blood transfusion of nurses and midwives. Finally, data were entered into Epi-data v.3.1 and transferred to SPSS v.26 for analysis. Bivariate logist

SUBMITTER: Edea G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11437834 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature