Assessment Of Knowledge Practice And Associated Factors Towards Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (cpap) Therapy Among Nurses Working At Nicu In Public Hospital Addis Ababa Ethiopia 2021.

Back ground: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a noninvasive respiratoryrnsupport method used to manage neonates with respiratory distress, provides continuousrnpressure that helps prevent the collapse of alveoli, increasing the lungs’ functional residualrncapacity, and thus minimizing the work of breathing. Good nurses' skills and knowledge arernneeded to prevent and overcome complications such as nasal trauma, pneumothorax, andrngastric distension due to the use of CPAP. rnObjective: This study aim was to assess knowledge, practice, and associated factors towards rnContinuous positive airway pressure therapy among nurses working in NICU in publicrnHospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021.rnMethods and Materials: A facility-based cross-sectional study design was conducted duringrnthe period of March, 2021 to May, 2021. Simple random sampling was used to obtain thernstudy participants. A self-administered questionnaire and observational checklist techniquernwere unitized to gather the data from 120 nurses working in four public Hospitals AddisrnAbaba, Ethiopia. The collected data was entered by using Epi-data version 4.6 and exportedrnto SPSS version 26 for analysis. Logistic regression model was used to identify thernassociation between the dependent variable and independent variable. In bivariate model,rnVariables that had p-value ≤ 0.25 were further analyzed into the multivariable model andrnconfidence level at 95%, the p-value of

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