Table 2.

Description of knowledge items among nurses about pain management, University of Gondar comprehensive specialized hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2019 (n = 387).

Questions	Categories	Frequency	Percentage (%)
Staff can always pick up cues from children that indicate that they are in pain	Yes∗	243	62.8
	No	144	37.2
Because narcotics can cause respiratory depression, they should not be used in pediatric patients	Yes∗	132	34.1
	No	255	65.9
It may often be useful to give a placebo to a patient in pain to assess if he is genuinely in pain	Yes∗	269	69.5
	No	118	30.5
Estimation of pain by an M.D. or R.N. is as a measure of pain as a patient's self-report	Yes∗	228	58.9
	No	159	41.1
Patients having severe chronic pain often need higher dosages of pain meds than patients with acute pain	Yes∗	160	41.3
	No	227	58.7
Distraction, for example, by the use of music or relaxation, can decrease the perception of pain	Yes∗	83	21.4
	No	304	78.6
Increasing analgesic requirements are signs that the patient is becoming addicted to the narcotic	Yes∗	102	26.4
	No	285	73.6
If a patient and/or patient family member reports that a narcotic is causing euphoria, she/he should be given a lower dose of the analgesic	Yes∗	131	33.9
	No	256	66.1
One fourth of patients receiving narcotics around the clock become addicted	Yes∗	127	32.8
	No	260	67.2
The preferred route of administration of narcotic pain relievers to patients with pain is IM	Yes∗	160	41.3
	No	227	58.7
Patients can be maintained in a pain free state	Yes∗	104	26.9
	No	283	73.1
Patients with chronic pain should receive pain medications at regular intervals with or without the presence of discomfort	Yes∗	141	36.4
	No	246	63.6

^∗ = correct answer; IM: intramuscular.