Quality of Perioperative Informations Provided and its Associated Factors Among Adult Patients Who Undergone Surgery in Public Hospitals of Gamo &Gofa Zones: A Mixed Design Study, Southern Ethiopia, 2019

Background: Surgery is one of biggest health related decisions done in one’s life with an outcome ranging in both extremes. It do have three phases. Preoperative, Intraoperative and Postoperative  phases. All the phases are interlinked and affect one another. Surgical outcomes are   found to be    affected by range of factors. Some of the factors could be social, financial, medical, immunological, and etc. Surgery as a professional procedure, is bound with multiples of concerns including clinical, professional, moral, Ethical and legal aspects. Appropriate health informations are an indispensable component of health care as well as surgery. Noting is known about the quality of perioperative informations provided in Public Hospitals of Gamo and Gofa Zones. Therefore, the purpose of this study will be to assess the quality of perioperative informations provided and its associated factors among adult patients who undergone surgery in public hospitals of Gamo and Gofa Zones. Method and materials: A facility based mixed design study was conducted from March-April 2019 in Arba minch, Chencha and Sawla Hospitals, Southern Ethiopia. A simple random sampling technique was employed to select 410 study participants among admitted adult patients who undergone surgery. Bivariate logistic regression analysis was done to identify candidates for multivariable logistic regression analysis. Explanatory variables with a p-value of less than 0.25 in the bivariate logistic regression analysis were included in the initial logistic model of multivariable logistic regression. Finally, statistically significant associations of variables were determined based on an Adjusted Odds ratio with 95% confidence interval and p-value <0.05. Result: the proportion of patients who received good quality perioperative informations are only 36.6%. In the multivariable analysis; Frequency of Hospital Visit  [AOR=2.604, 95% CI: 1.669-4.063],  Reasons for Hospital Visit [AOR = 2.370; 95% CI: 1.356-4.144], Previous Surgery [AOR = 2.370; 95% CI: 1.449-3.876], number of Previous Surgery [AOR = 1.808; 95% CI: 1.097-2.981], Place of Surgery[AOR =0.333; 95% CI:0.152-0.726], Surgical Professional [AOR =2.007; 95% CI:1.096-3.677] and Consenter [AOR =7.408; 95% CI:4.453-12.325] were significantly associated with the provision of good quality perioperative informations. Conclusion: According to this study, the proportion of patients who received good quality perioperative informations are only 36.6%.Therefore, all the concerned bodies must strive to improve the quality of informations to adult surgical patients