Assessment of Nurses Knowledge upon Treatment Strategies of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Abstract

Objectives: The study aims to identify the nurse's knowledge upon treatment strategies of irritable bowel syndrome, and to find out the significant differences between their knowledge and some variables.

Methodology: Descriptive analytical design of the study was conducting on 80 nurses, starting in January 4^th 2010 to the July 4^th 2010. The questionnaire was composed of two parts and introductory page that invite the nurses who participate in the study, part one is demographic- characteristics sheet which consist of 19 items which included: Gender, age, level of education, workplace, and year of experiences Part two: Included four domains related to treatment strategies of IBS which consists of drugs therapy (9 Items), nutritional therapy (7 Items), and psychological therapy (5 Items), and complementary therapy (4 Items). The researcher used the appropriate statistical methods in the data analysis which included descriptive data analysis and inferential data analysis. 

Results: The findings of present study revealed that 55% of the nurses were females, majority of them at age 31-40 years ago, most of the nurses were institute education graduated were of (41.2%), 58.5% of nurses response was incorrect regarding to drugs therapy, and 76.7% of nurses response was correct regarding to nutritional therapy, the results indicated that there were highly significant between nurse's response about drugs therapy and Psychological therapy with age, highly significant between Psychological therapy and level of education at P≤0.05.

Recommendation: The study recommends to preparing programmed lectures for the nurses to learn the treatment strategies of IBS especially for the nurse staff who works in medical units in the hospital to provide patients all knowledge related to IBS management.

Conclusions: the results of study concluded that the nurses have low knowledge regarding treatment strategies for irritable bowel syndrome.