TITLE:
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice of Patient Teaching among Nurses in Primary Health Care, United Arab Emirates
AUTHORS:
Shimaa Said Alsalim
KEYWORDS:
Challenges of Patient Education, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice of Patient Teaching, Barriers of Patient Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nursing,
Vol.13 No.12,
December
27,
2023
ABSTRACT: Patient
education is defined as the process of influencing a patient’s behavior and
helping them make the necessary changes to their knowledge, attitudes, and
skills to maintain or improve their health. It is a crucial part of patient
care, and the EHS ambulatory care healthcare system is giving patient education more importance. Many experts claim
that nurses still have difficulties
providing patient education because of a range of factors, which include a lack
of expertise and numerous other obstacles. Moreover, there isn’t any published
research that studies nurses’ attitudes, knowledge, and patient-teaching
practices in primary healthcare in the United Arab Emirates. The research
project aims to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practice of patient
teaching among nurses in primary health care centers to better understand how
nurse knowledge and attitudes may affect nurse-performed patient education. The
target population is nurses working in primary healthcare centers in Sharjah,
Ajman, Dubai, Ras Al-Khaimah, Fujairah, and Umm Al Quwain. However, the sample
size is 300 using a random cluster sampling technique. The participants were
encouraged to take part in the study (KAPPTNQ) through an online survey. The
study concludes that the majority of nurses are knowledgeable about patient
education; a large proportion of the nurses have a positive attitude toward
patient education; and the majority of the nurses have a positive practice of patient education.
However, the major challenges nurses
encounter with patients’ health teaching include language barriers,
inadequate communication, ineffective time
management, and cultural impacts on patient health education.