Published date: Mar 31 2021

Journal Title: Sudan Journal of Medical Sciences

Issue title: Sudan JMS: Volume 16 (2021), Issue No. 1

Pages: 122-134

DOI: 10.18502/sjms.v16i1.8943

Sahar AhmedDepartment of Medical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Eiman EisaMedical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Montaha MohammedDepartment of Medical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Samah AbdallaDepartment of Medical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Background: Injectable artesunate (inj AS) is a new anti-malarial treatment recently introduced in Sudan for the treatment of severe malaria . Inj AS has demonstrated its superiority over injectable quinine in African and Asian patients. This study aimed to evaluate the outcome of innovative teach-back tool kit session on the knowledge of inj AS among the postgraduate nursing students at the University of Khartoum, Sudan.           

Methods: This interventional pre–posttest studyincluded30postgraduatenursing students selected though a full-coverage sampling method and meeting the selection criteria. Data were collected using standardized self-administered questionnaire after taking a written approval from the participants. The pretest included an initial assessment followed by implementation of interactive session about new anti-malaria treatment using an innovative teach-back toolkit, and the final assessment was conducted after two weeks (posttest). The collected data were then analyzed and interpreted using descriptive and inferential statistics based on the objective and hypothesis of the study. A two-tailed p-value at 0.05 was considered as  the level of significance using SPSS version 20.

Results:

Majority of the participants were aged between 20 and 30years; of them, 26 (87%) were female and 4(13%) male, and all of them had >1year of experience. The findings of the study showed that half of the participants (15[50%]) had a good knowledge score, 12 (40%) had a poor knowledge, and 3(10%) had a very poor knowledge score in the pretest. However, the knowledge scores increased significantly to 86.7% posttest, which is very good. The overall mean of pretest knowledge scores regarding inj AS was7.4 with a statically significant difference (p=0.000). The mean score was increased to 12 with a statically significant difference posttest (p=0.000).

Conclusion:

There was a statistically significant improvement in the knowledge scores of the postgraduate nursing students about inj AS after the implementation of interactive teaching session using innovative teach-back tool kit.

Keywords:inj artesunate, teach back-toolkit, nursing students, session

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