| Summary: | Pediatric pain is a challenging issue among healthcare workers; this includes
nursing students as they will become nurses in future. Students nurses' knowledge and
attitude towards pediatric pain seem to affect their pain assessment and management in
pediatric during clinical practice. A cross sectional, descriptive statistic study was
carried out to assess the knowledge and attitude of student nurses towards pediatric
pain. Total of 100 final year nursing students in School of Health Sciences, USM
completed the questionnaires by convenience sampling technique that the fits inclusion
criteria. Data was statistically analyzed using the software package SPSS version 22.
Statistical significance was considered at p value <0.05. Among 100 respondents
(n=100), 74 (74.0%) respondents showed that they had moderate level of knowledge
and 49 (49.0%) of the respondents had positive attitude. Independent t-test showed a
significant association between clinical experience at pediatric unit with knowledge
p<0.05 and attitude score p<0.05. Besides that, independent t-test also showed a
significant association between level of education with knowledge score p<0.05 and
attitude score p<0.05. In conclusion, this research finding indicated there were
associations between clinical experiences in pediatric unit as well as level of education
with knowledge and attitude among final year nursing students in USM.
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