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Influence of Surgical Nurses’ Information Behaviour on Surgical Patients’ Pain Relief in Teaching Hospitals in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Authors: BABALOLA Yemisi , NWAOMAH Esther , Salawu Rashidi

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: Information And Knowledge Management

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Surgical patients need prompt and adequate pain relief after surgery. This required surgical nurses’ need to
acquire and use information to facilitate pain relief. The ability of surgical nurses’ to seek and use pain
management information would enhance patients’ pain relief. Based on this assumption, the study investigated
influence of nurses’ information behaviour on surgical patients’ pain relief in teaching hospitals in Port Harcourt.
The study adopted survey design. A total sample of 786 drawn from the population of 3854 included 152
surgical nurses, 317 surgical patients, and 317 medication charts of the surgical patients using Krejcie and
Morgan table. Multistage sampling technique was applied to select the participants. A validated questionnaire
which was partly adapted, and medication charts audit checklist were used for data collection. Cronbach’s alpha
coefficients for the constructs ranged from 0.74 to 0.90. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential
statistics.Findings revealed that nurses’ information behaviour components (Adj. R2 = 0.146, (F(2.143) =13.362,
p<0> (R2 = 0.144, ? = 0.380, p <0 xss=removed> Findings revealed that surgical nurses’ information behaviour was very good, average weighted mean (M = 3.46).
Further findings showed that surgical patients’ level of pain relief was very high (M = 1.75). The study
concludes that nurses’ information behaviour improved surgical patients’ pain relief in teaching hospitals in Port
Harcourt, Nigeria. The study recommends that surgical nurses should improve on their information seeking and
use behaviour to maintain pain relief among surgical patients.
Keywords: Nurses’ information seeking, Nurses’ information use,

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BABALOLA,Y. NWAOMAH,E. Salawu,R. . (2021). Influence of Surgical Nurses’ Information Behaviour on Surgical Patients’ Pain Relief in Teaching Hospitals in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 11 (), 41-41.

BABALOLA,Y. NWAOMAH,E. Salawu,R. . "Influence of Surgical Nurses’ Information Behaviour on Surgical Patients’ Pain Relief in Teaching Hospitals in Port Harcourt, Nigeria" 11, no (), (2021): 41-41.

BABALOLA,Y. and NWAOMAH,E. and Salawu,R. and . (2021). Influence of Surgical Nurses’ Information Behaviour on Surgical Patients’ Pain Relief in Teaching Hospitals in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 11 (), pp41-41.

BABALOLAY, NWAOMAHE, SalawuR, . Influence of Surgical Nurses’ Information Behaviour on Surgical Patients’ Pain Relief in Teaching Hospitals in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 2021, 11 ():41-41.

BABALOLA,Yemisi , NWAOMAH,Esther , and Salawu,Rashidi . "Influence of Surgical Nurses’ Information Behaviour on Surgical Patients’ Pain Relief in Teaching Hospitals in Port Harcourt, Nigeria", 11 . (2021) : 41-41.

B.Yemisi N.Esther & S.Rashidi , "Influence of Surgical Nurses’ Information Behaviour on Surgical Patients’ Pain Relief in Teaching Hospitals in Port Harcourt, Nigeria" vol.11, no., pp. 41-41, 2021.

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