Asthma Patients Satisfaction towards Nursing Management at Alshaab Teaching Hospital - Khartoum State 2023.

Background: Patient satisfaction is the perception of the level of care received compared with the care expected and represents a balance between the perception and expectation of the nursing care received.Patients' satisfaction with nurses' care has become a significant way to measure the quality of care.Objective: To study the level of asthma patients' satisfaction towards nursing management. Methods: A hospital-based cross-sectional study was conducted at Al-Shaab Teaching Hospital.The sample size was 129 patients.All patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were interviewed.Data were collected using a standardized administered questionnaire and analyzed by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25, presented in the form of tables and figures.Napata Scientific Journal Vol. 3 (2) PP 93-103 Results38% of the patients were aged between 25-44 years, and 78.3% were non-smokers.Patients were satisfied regarding the cost of asthma care, availability of medications, time that nurses spent with patients, and quality of information received from nurses at 51.2%, 49.6%, 76.7%, and 9.8% respectively.Overall, 69% of asthmatic patients had a strong level of satisfaction related to nursing management. ConclusionThe study concluded that most patients had a strong level of satisfaction related to nursing management.There was a statistically significant association between total satisfaction, treatment regimen, and the periodicity or frequency of asthmatic attacks, with a P-value of 0.01.