Nurses Knowledge about Management of Osteoarthritis Patients by Education and Lifestyle modification at Azadi Teaching Hospital (Comparative study)
Abstract
Background: Osteoarthritis is the most prevalent joint disease and a leading contributor to disability. It significantly limits patients' capacity to carry out everyday duties. Nurses play a crucial role in helping people with osteoarthritis in hospitals and health facilities. In addition to teaching patients pain management techniques and educating them about the disease
Objectives: The aim of the study is to compare Nurses knowledge toward Management of Osteoarthritis Patients by Lifestyle modification before and after education program
Methodology: The present study used a quasi-experimental(one group pretest –posttest) study design during the period between 1 of November,2025 and 10 of March 2026.A non-probability(purposive) sampling of (30)Nurses who working in Orthopedic, medical, surgical unit and consultation clinics of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation units)in the Azadi Teaching Hospital. The study instrument is composed of six main parts.
Results: The current study show that the overall assessment of nurses’ knowledge about management of osteoarthritis in the pretest show that nurses demonstrating poor to moderate level of overall knowledge with mean score 17.90 and they need a specific educational program about management of osteoarthritis patients. Also, the study concludes that the nurses’ overall knowledge increased to good among 70% with mean score 36.07 During the posttest and after engagement in educational program that indicates an effective role of educational program in enhancing nurses’ overall knowledge about management of osteoarthritis.
Conclusion: The study concluded that the educational program significantly improved nurses’ knowledge based on posttest with mean ranks reported higher in the posttest comparing to pretest.
Recommendation: Conducting an educational program related to osteoarthritis patients to improve nurses’ knowledge who working at orthopedic unit and consultation clinics of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation units.
Full text article
References
Alaa Mohamed Elsayed, Hanaa Abdelhakim Ahmed, & Hala Mohamed. (2023). Patients’ knowledge and practices toward osteoarthritis disease. Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 14(4), 347–360. https://doi.org/10.21608/ejhc.2023.326712
Asel Kareem Tawfeeq, Tamara Abdel Wahab Rasheed, & Bekir Abdul Wahab Rasheed. (2017). Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding osteoarthritis management among physicians of primary health care centers of primary health care centers; Al-Rusafa/Baghdad.
Bartels, M., Juhl, B., Christensen, R., and Hagen, B., (2019):Aquatic exercise for the treatment of knee and hip osteoarthritis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (3) .
Bourne RB, Chesworth BM, Davis AM, et al. Patient satisfaction after total knee arthroplasty: Who is satisfied and who is not? Clin Orthop Relat Res 2021;468:57-63.
Gregory PJ, Sperry M, and Wilson AF. (2019); Dietary supplements for osteoarthritis, American Family Physician, Vol. 77 Issue 2,p177-184. 9. Hairon N., NICE (2019); New guidance on
Holden, M. A., Nicholls, E. E., Young, J., Hay, E. M., & Foster, N. E. (2022). UK-based physical therapists’ attitudes and beliefs towards exercise and knee osteoarthritis: Findings from a mixed-methods study. Arthritis Care & Research, 64(10), 1601–1612. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.21700
Karima Fouad Elshamy, Hala Mohamed Abdelhamed, & Samera Sadon Sadawy. (2018). Impact of implementing prevention and management osteoarthritis training program on improving nurses’ knowledge and practice. Journal of American Science, 14(10).
Li CS, Karlsson J, Winemaker M, et al. Orthopedic surgeons feel that there is a treatment gap in the management of early OA: international survey. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 2020;22:363-78.
London NJ, Miller LE, Block JE. Clinical and economic consequences of the treatment gap in knee osteoarthritis management. Med Hypotheses 2021;76:887-92.
Long H, Liu Q, Yin H, Wang K, Diao N, Zhang Y, et al. Prevalence Trends of Site-Specific Osteoarthritis From 1990 to 2019: Findings From the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Arthritis Rheumatol 2022; 74: 1172-1183.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Osteoarthritis: care and management. NICE guideline CG177. 2018. https://www.nice.org.uk/ guidance/cg177 (accessed 21 September 2020)
Omar, D. M., Raheem, A. Q., & Hassan, T. Y. (2021). Risk factors of knee osteoarthritis in patients attending rheumatology clinic in Mosul. Journal of the Faculty of Medicine Baghdad, 63(4), Article 6341. https://doi.org/10.32007/jfacmedbaghdad.6341
Parvizi J, Nunley RM, Berend KR, et al. High level of residual symptoms in young patients after total knee arthroplasty. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2019;472:133-7.
Phillips S, Silvia Li C, Phillips M, et al. Treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee with bracing: a scoping review. Orthop Rev (Pavia) 2020;8:6256.
sánchez-Romero, A., Pecos-Martín, D., Calvo-Lobo, C., and Fernández-Carnero, J., (2022): Effects of dry needling in an exercise program for older adults with knee osteoarthritis: A pilot clinical trial. Medicine, 97(26).
Shog K. Alahmed, Ahmed M. Mohieldin, Areeb Alshammari, Ziyad F. Alshammari, Ruba A. Alahmdi, S. Luqman A. Alghashan, Hamad F. Alshammari, Fahad F. Alshammary, Ashwaq H. Alshammari, & Mutah S. Alahmdi. (2023). Knowledge and awareness regarding osteoarthritis and its factors in Hail region, Saudi Arabia. Cureus, 15(3), e36557. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36557
World Health Organization. (2020). World report on ageing and health. Geneva: World Health Organization. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241565042
Authors
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.