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Table 7 Awareness and use of NAPCare Pain Management Guidelines (PMG) by institution and role

From: A survey of cancer care institutions in Nepal to inform design of a pain management mobile application

 

Overall

Public General

Hospital

Public Cancer

Hospital

Private Cancer

Hospital

Hospice

100% (92)

29% (27)

33% (30)

30% (28)

8% (7)

Roles

% within row total

Total

Nurse

Physician

Nurse

Physician

Nurse

Physician

Nurse

Physician

Nurse

100%(92)

70%(64)

30% (28)

78% (21)

22% (6)

47% (14)

53% (16)

79% (22)

21% (6)

100% (7)

Have heard of the NAPCare PMG % within column total (n)

 Yes

96% (88)

98% (63)

89% (25)

95% (20)

100% (6)

100% (14)

81% (13)

100% (22)

100% (6)

100% (7)

 No

4% (4)

2% (1)

11% (3)

5% (1)

0% (0)

0% (0)

19% (3)

0% (0)

0% (0)

0% (0)

Source of Information on NAPCare PMG^ (Asked of those who heard about PMG) % within column total (n)

 Professional colleague

65% (57)

65% (41)

64% (16)

50% (10)

67% (4)

57% (8)

46% (6)

86% (19)

100% (6)

57% (4)

 Saw the booklet

76% (67)

79% (50)

68% (17)

80% (16)

83% (5)

80% (16)

54% (7)

100% (22)

83% (5)

43% (3)

 Palliative care training

43% (38)

54% (34)

16% (4)

60% (12)

0%(0)

60% (12)

31% (4)

55% (12)

0%(0)

43% (3)

 Other

3% (3)

2% (1)

8% (2)

0% (0)

17% (1)

0% (0)

8% (1)

0% (0)

0% (0)

14% (1)

Have read NAPCare PMG (Asked of those who heard about PMG) % within column total (n)

 Yes, all of it*

73% (64)

75% (47)

68% (17)

70% (14)

67% (4)

43% (6)

54% (7)

100% (22)

100% (6)

71% (5)

 Yes, some of it*

24% (21)

22% (14)

28% (7)

30% (6)

33% (2)

43% (6)

39% (5)

0% (0)

0% (0)

29% (2)

 No

3% (3)

3% (2)

4% (1)

0% (0)

0% (0)

14% (2)

8% (1)

0% (0)

0% (0)

0% (0)

Use of NAPCare PMG in clinical practice (Asked of those who heard about PMG) % within column total (n)

 Never

1% (1)

0%(0)

4% (1)

0% (0)

0% (0)

0% (0)

8% (1)

0%(0)

0% (0)

0% (0)

  < Once a month

6% (5)

3% (2)

12% (3)

0% (0)

17% (1)

14% (2)

15% (2)

0% (0)

0% (0)

0% (1)

 Once a month

2% (2)

0%

8% (2)

0% (0)

0% (0)

0% (0)

15% (2)

0% (0)

0% (0)

0% (1)

 Once a week

7% (6)

3% (2)

16% (4)

5% (1)

33% (2)

0% (0)

15% (2)

0% (0)

0% (0)

14% (1)

 Once a day

8% (7)

10% (6)

4% (1)

20% (4)

17% (1)

7% (1)

0% (0)

5% (1)

0% (0)

0% (1)

 Multiple times per day

76% (67)

84% (53)

56% (14)

74% (15)

33% (2)

79% (11)

46% (6)

95% (21)

100% (6)

79% (11)

How helpful in your clinical practice^^ (Asked of those who heard about PMG) % within column total (n)

 Mean(n)

8.68(88)

8.90(63)

8.16(25)

9.35(20)

8.50(6)

8.21(14)

7.85(13)

9.00(22)

8.50(6)

8.57(7)

Use of other PMG guidelines % within column total (n)

 Yes

37% (32)

34% (21)

44% (11)

47% (9)

50% (3)

43% (6)

54% (7)

0% (0)

167% (1)

86% (6)

 No

63% (55)

66% (41)

56% (14)

53% (10)

50% (3)

57% (8)

46% (6)

100% (22)

83% (5)

14% (1)

Types of other PMG guidelines (Asked of those who reported use of other PMG) % within column total (n)

 Use WHO Guidelines

72% (23)

95% (19)

44% (4)

100% (8)

33% (1)

100% (6)

60% (3)

–

–

83% (5)

  1. “– “indicates there were no responses from this role/category of provider on that question, while 0% means that 0% of this role/category of provider chose this answer
  2. ^ Respondents could select more than 1 response category. The column percentage is calculated based on the number of people who responded to the question; therefore, total percent can exceed 100. (n) = frequency of response for that item. Statistical significance was not tested on multiple response items. ^^ Average mean score reported, based on scale of 0 (not helpful) to 10 (very helpful)
  3. Bold numbers indicate the difference among roles/categories of provider on the question is statistically significant (α = 0.05) within the institution or between overall role