Factors influencing pediatric nurses' perception, knowledge and attitude towards suspecting and reporting child abuse in HUSM
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Date
2011
Authors
Kuppusamy, Grete
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Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
Pediatric nurses plays a very important role in suspecting and reporting child abuse
cases in pediatric wards. Personal attributes such as age, nursing education level,
marital status, years of working experience and child abuse training course
experience will be the factors that influences nurses perception, knowledge and
attitudes towards suspecting and reporting child abuse cases. Thus this crosssectional
study was conducted to examine the association between personal
attributes of nurses with their perception, knowledge and attitudes towards child
abuse. This study questionnaire consists of 11 demographic characteristic questions
and 35 Likert-type questionnaires. The questionnaire for this study compromised of
four parts which is the purpose to measure pediatric nurses' perceptions, knowledge
and attitude towards child abuse and neglect. The data for this study was collected by
using self-administered questionnaire. Targeted group were pediatric nurses working
in all pediatric wards in HUSM. Fourty-eight pediatric nurses voluntarily become
participants for this study. Statistical analysis carried out using SPSS version 18.0
and data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, independent t-test and one way
ANOVA. Results shows that there were only association between education level
(p=0.007) and years of working experience (p=0.01 0) with pediatric nurses perception
(p<0.05). There were also 2 factors that influenced the attitudes of nurses which
were, education level (p=0.030) and the experience of attending child abuse training
(p=0.031 ), (p<0.05). Whereas, there were no association between all factors with
nurses' knowledge towards suspecting and reporting (p>0.05).
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Pediatric