Health education competence: An investigation of the health education knowledge, skills and attitudes of nurses in Kazakhstan.

Autor: Khazhymurat A; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Kerey and Zhanibek Khans St 5/1, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan., Paiyzkhan M; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Kerey and Zhanibek Khans St 5/1, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan., Khriyenko S; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Kerey and Zhanibek Khans St 5/1, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan., Seilova S; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Kerey and Zhanibek Khans St 5/1, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan., Baisanova S; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Kerey and Zhanibek Khans St 5/1, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan., Kuntuganova A; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Kerey and Zhanibek Khans St 5/1, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan., Almazan JU; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Kerey and Zhanibek Khans St 5/1, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan., Cruz JP; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Nazarbayev University, Kerey and Zhanibek Khans St 5/1, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan. Electronic address: cruzjprn@gmail.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nurse education in practice [Nurse Educ Pract] 2023 Mar; Vol. 68, pp. 103586. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 21.
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103586
Abstrakt: Aims: This study assessed the nurses' knowledge of, skills on and attitudes toward health education among nurses working at the University Medical Center Corporate Fund (UMC) in Kazakhstan. The personal and professional factors influencing the nurses' knowledge of, skills on and attitudes toward health education were also investigated.
Background: Health education is one of the nurses' fundamental responsibilities. Nurses' role in health education is critical in empowering patients and their families to live healthier lives, thus ensuring optimum health, well-being and quality of life. However, in Kazakhstan, where the nursing profession is still establishing its professional autonomy, data concerning the competence of Kazakh nurses in health education is unknown.
Design: A quantitative study, specifically the cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational designs.
Methods: The survey was performed at UMC in Astana, Kazakhstan. Using a convenience sampling technique, 312 nurses participated in the survey from March to August 2022. The "Nurse Health Education Competence Instrument" was used to collect data. The personal and professional characteristics of the nurses were also collected. Standard multiple regression analysis examined the personal and professional variables influencing the nurses' health education competence.
Results: The respondents' average score in the "Cognitive domain," "Psychomotor domain," and "Affective-attitudinal domain" was 3.80 (SD = 0.66), 3.99 (SD = 0.58) and 4.04 (SD = 0.62), respectively. The nurses' category as a nurse, medical center, attendance to health education training/seminars in the last 12 months, provision of health education to a patient in the last week and perception of health education's significance in nursing practice were significant predictors of the nurses' health education competence contributing an approximately 24.4 %, 29.3 % and 27.1 % of the variance of the health education knowledge (R 2 = 0.273, Adjusted R 2 = 0.244), skills R 2 = 0.320, Adjusted R 2 = 0.293) and attitudes (R 2 = 0.299, Adjusted R 2 = 0.271).
Conclusions: The nurses reported high levels of health education competence (knowledge, attitudes and skills). The personal and professional factors influencing the nurses' competence in health education are essential to consider when developing interventions and healthcare policies to ensure nurses' competent provision of health education to patients.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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