Asian Pacific Journal of Nursing

PERCEPTION OF CARING BEHAVIOURS AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG NURSES WORKING IN GONDAR UNIVERSITY AND FELEGE-HIWOT REFERRAL HOSPITALS, NORTHWEST ETHIOPIA: A CROSS- SECTIONAL STUDY

Tesfaye Demeke Ashenafie1*, Nugusie Birhane Tebeje1, Dariye Getachew Gardew2, Mignote Hailu Gebrie2

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Caring behaviour, Nurse, Ethiopia.

Caring occur every time a nurse contact with a client and expressed through in concrete nursing acts and behaviours. Studies on the nurse’s about their perception of caring behaviours regularly investigated to improve the quality of nursing care. However in Ethiopia no single study conducted on nurses’ caring behaviours. This study assessed nurses’ perception towards caring behaviours and associated factors in Gondar University and Felege-Hiwot referral hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia. Institutional based cross-sectional study was conducted among 387 nurses from February 01 to 20, 2014. Data were collected by using pretested and structured self-administered questionnaire. Descriptive and summary statistics were employed. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression model was fitted to identify associated factors with perception of caring behaviours in nurses. An adjusted odds ratio with 95% confidence interval was computed to determine the level of significance. The proportion of nurses who had high perception caring behaviours was found to be 68.2%. Relatively, most of the respondents (80.4 %) highly perceived the technical -professional aspect of caring behaviours as their caring than the psychosocial caring behaviour aspects (58.7%). Work experience 6-10 years and above (AOR[95%CI] 4.68[1.70-12.89]), Job satisfaction with: personal satisfaction(AOR[95%CI]4.03[1.53-10.60),professional satisfaction (AOR[95%CI] 2.83[1.07- 4.99]), adequate staffing and support (AOR[95%CI] 2.82[1.30-6.13]), positive nurse doctor relationship (AOR[95%CI] 3.09[1.46-6.52]) had significant association with nurses perception towards nursing caring behaviours. The proportion of nurses who had high perception caring behaviours was found to be lower. This study indicates those associated factors had its own effect with caring behaviours. Therefore enhance nurses’ satisfaction with their job and develop positive practice environment to improve the nurses’ caring behaviours. Moreover caring behaviours may be influenced by many variable further nursing researches by using both quantitative and qualitative study recommend.