A & A: Attitude and aligned factors on acute stroke management of health professionals working at Hidar 11 hospital, Akesta

Abstract

Stoke is the leading cause of death among adults, children and pregnant mother as well in Ethiopia. According to the latest WHO data published in may 2014 Stroke Deaths in Ethiopia reached 28,320 or 4.71% of total deaths. The age adjusted Death Rate is 71.94 per 100,000 of population ranks Ethiopia #107 in the world.

Objective

To assess the socio demographics and attitude towards of clinical expertise on acute stroke management among health professionals from December 2017 to April 2018.

Methods

Institution based cross sectional study design was employed. Stratified simple random sampling method used to select 102 health professionals. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results

Among total participants 50.98% of the respondents were in the age group between 22-25 years, 59.80% were males and 40.19% female. Amongst participants majority (82.35) were belongs to Amhara ethnicity and least were belongs to Gurage. Forty nine (48.03%) were belongs to orthodox and same (48.03%) with Muslims and 63.72% were married. Of 9.80% were general practitioner, 44.11% & 34.31% nurses & midwives respectively and 11.76 % are other health professionals. Qualification reveals that highest percentage (67.64%) of the respondents from BSc Nursing, 27.45% are diploma holders, 3.92% are completed MD and 1% are others. Of 61.76%) of them with less than 2 years of experience Regarding monthly income of the health professionals more (66.66%) are earning 10000 and above and only 25.9% were participated in similar study. Attitude towards acute stroke management among health professionals difference ad categorized as agree, disagree and undecided with 9 items. It can be over and done with that, mainstream of the health professionals had positive attitude, very less negative and only few were uncertain.

Conclusion

The present study revealed that majority of health professionals’ are attitude positive and only some of them are negative and a small number of undecided.