Steve E Bellan, Juliet R C Pulliam, James C Scott, Jonathan Dushoff
How to make epidemiological training infectious
PLoS biology
prevalence obesity rising globally leading increase noncommunicable diseases level obesity knowledge among nurses may impact treat perceive obese patients study aimed ascertain knowledge attitudes practices nurses regarding obesity private healthcare facilities located namibias oshana region total four private healthcare facilities namibias oshana area served studys sites quantitative crosssectional research design using proportional stratified random sampling used choose 250 respondents study questionnaire respondents selfadministered used gather data reliability validity questionnaire determined pilot study ibm statistical package social sciences spss version 27 used data analysis participants twofifths positive attitude n 112 448 slightly less twofifths good practices n 96 384 onethird good knowledge n 97 39 differences knowledge mean scores based age occupation sex educational level results validate necessity healthcare facilities implement nurse education mentorship initiatives well recognise reward nurses effectively care patients obesity study added literature knowledge attitudes practices nurses private healthcare facilities namibia well factors influence knowledge levels among nurses