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NURSING KNOWLEDGE, AND PRACTICE ABOUT NUTRITION AND DRUG INTERACTION IN IBN-SINA HOSPITAL- COAST HADHRAMOUT GOVERNATE- YEMEN

Muna Omar Alkatheri*

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Abstract

Background: Medicines treat and cure many health problems. However, they must be taken properly to ensure that they are safe and effective. Many medicines have powerful ingredients that interact with the human body in different ways. Diet and lifestyle can sometimes have a significant impact on drugs. A drug interaction is a situation in which a substance affects the activity of a drug, i.e. the effects are increased or decreased, or they produce a new effect that neither produces on its own. Typically, interactions between drugs come to mind (drug-drug interaction). However, interactions may also exist between drugs and foods, as well as drugs and herbs. Objective: To determine Nursing Knowledge, and practice about nutrition and drug interaction in Ibn-Sina Hospital – Coast Hadhramout Governate –Yemen. Subject and Methods: The study design was a descriptive cross-sectional survey, using a questionnaire, distributed to 158 in Ibn-Sina Nurses, during (August – September) 2020. Results: The statistical analysis for data obtained in this study showed:- Nutrition doctors or specialists and the nutrition department were not available in the biggest hospital (Ibn-Sina Hospital) in our governed. A responsible person's nutritional awareness of food –drugs or disease interaction with the patient was absent So the highest percentage 61 %that the dietitian was the doctor. From our results, we found that the importance of nursing awareness and knowledge for overlapping nutrition-drug interaction to make good decisions and resolve the side effects of medication was the highest percentage 96 %,94% of the nursing support that nutrition-drug interaction can affect the patient's life, so 64% of them interested in the follow-up date information on nutrition and drug interactions. The main source of information that led to the overlap of nutrition and drug interaction for the Ibn-Sins nursing hospital was nutrition rapporteur 68%, on the other hand, nutrition courses had the lowest percentage 41%. More than the quarter of our study sample 29% was the lowest percentage of all certain groups that they did not know any information about nutrition-drug interaction and 58% was the highest percentage about serious warfarin–food interaction. The main causes of low nutritional nursing awareness was 77% no conference, courses and seminars and 66 % was related to decline in the hospital services. Low Nursing practice towards nutrition and drug interaction monitoring interaction in Ibn-Sina Hospital- Coast Hadhramout Governate–Yemen. Conclusion: The present study was successful in evaluating the knowledge, awareness, and attitude of food-drug interaction among nurses It indicates that the availability of the nutrition department of Ibn-Sina Hospital the biggest hospital in Coast Hadhramout governate was not found, and lack of nursing knowledge, and weak practice about nutrition and drug interaction in Ibn-Sina Hospital – Coast Hadhramout Governate –Yemen.

Keywords: Knowledge, attitudes food and drug interactions (FDI), Ibn-Sina Nurses Hospital, Muna Alkatheri.