Quality of nursing care for pediatric Gastrointestinal Endoscopy patients in Khartoum state governmental hospitals, Khartoum, Sudan

Abstract

Background: Over the past two decades the invention of the fiberoptie endoscopy, video technology, conscious sedation coupled with the presence of experienced pediatricians in endoscopy and high standard nursing have made a dramatic improvement in pediatric endoscopy for diagnostic and therapeutic pll1‘pOS6S. Materials and Methods: In this study, 207 children who were scheduled for gastrointestinal endoscopy were enrolled in addition to 196 parents or caregivers accompanying these children as caretakers. The endoscopic procedures included diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. i The required data included caregivers’ satisfaction with the provided services conceming endoscopy procedures and evaluation of nurses’ performance for endoscopy. The first data were collected by structured questionnaire and the second data by observational checklist. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS version 17 and the findings were presented as tables a.nd figures. Statistical significance was accepted when P value was 0.05 or below. An infonned consent was obtained from each child‘s' caregivers prior to commencement of the study. Results: The caregivers of the children were 196 and they might be the parents or others; 82(4l .8%) of tliem were females and ll4(58.2%) were males. D Regarding the lcind reception by the nurses; l84(93.9%) acknowledged the kind reception. Sixty five (33.2%) of the caregivers received information about endoscopy procedtue from nurses. One hundred and twenty six (64.3%) caregivers paid the fees for endoscopy procedures from their own resources while the remaining 70 (35.6%) were covered by health insurance. There is a highly significant relation between the hospitals providing services and the parents and caregivers satisfaction (P value =0.00)