Assessment of knowledge and attitude on antiretroviral therapy among nursing students
Abstract
Title: Assessment of knowledge and attitude on antiretroviral therapy
among nursing students.
Objective: To assess the knowledge and attitude of final year nursing
students at Kenyatta National Hospital. Specific Objectives were to
establish the knowledge of nursing students on Anti-retroviral therapy
and to determine the attitude of students towards patients who are on
Anti-retroviral therapy
Method: The study done at Kenyatta National hospital administered
questionnaires to 150 students and 138 were found eligible. Data
collected was analyzed using STATA.
Results: The findings of the study showed that 39.8% of the nursing
students had knowledge about Anti-Retroviral drugs; 42% of the
students had some ideas while 18% of the students did not have
adequate knowledge. Married and older students seemed to have
better knowledge on ART compared to young and single Nurses
significant at a P-value of 0.033. Attitude towards ART was positive
from 34.8% of the students while 65.2% of the nursing students had
not expressed their feeling. There was significant association between
attitude and sex.
Conclusion: This study confirmed lack of adequate knowledge on Antiretroviral
therapy among newly qualified nursing students. The study
recommended inclusion of HIV/AIDS based units in the basic training
of nurses
Citation
Master Of Medicine In internal medicine, The University Of Nairobi, 2008Publisher
University of Nairobi. Faculty of Medicine