Survey on cognition status of cancer pain treatment knowledge among undergraduate nursing students

Abstract

Objective To provide background information to improve palliative care education by surveying a group undergraduate nursing students' knowledge about cancer pain treatment. Methods 100 senior full-time bachelor nursing students were surveyed by using a questionnaire addressing the knowledge cancer pain treatment. SPSS16. 0 and Excel software were used for data analysis and comparison. Results The average accuracy rate is 46. 13%, the maximum accuracy rate is 80.00% ( 12/15 ), the minimum accuracy rate is 13.33%(2/15), which means undergraduates have limited knowledge about cancer pain treatment. The accuracy rate in the aspect handling cancer pain is the highest, then the second goes to the knowledge addiction; and as to the knowledge medicine treatment cancer pain students have the lowest accuracy rate. Students got high accuracy rate 82%, in the knowledge the key medicines of three-step analgesic. But only one student wrote the 5points WHO' s cancer pain treatment rules, ninety-five percents express I don' t know. And Awareness Ievel cancer pain nursing knowledge is not related to the gender, experiences taking care patients with cancer,whether it received the relevant training and future work intentions (P ＞ 0. 05). The average accuracy rate was not influenced by experience in Cancer-related department( P ＞ 0. 05 ). But nursing students with experience in oncology department and other cancer-related department have higher accuracy rate than the one only with the experience in hematology department ( P ＜0. 01 ). Conclusions Systematic education and training on cancer pain treatment should be provided to bachelor nursing students. Key words: Undergraduate nursing students; Cancer pain nursing; Palliative care; Nursing education