Healthcare Providers’ Knowledge and Current Practice of Pain Assessment and Management: How Much Progress Have We Made?

Table 1

Demographic details of HCPs.

Characteristics	All HCPs n (%)
Gender
Male	305 (46.1)
Female	357 (53.9)
Age (years)
20–24	74 (11.4)
25–35	343 (52.7)
36–45	161 (24.7)
46–55	49 (7.5)
56–69	24 (3.7)
Discipline
Physicians	198 (30.6)
Nurses	389 (60.1)
Pharmacists	60 (9.3)
Postgraduate degree (years)	72 (10.9)
Hospital
Public	531 (80.2)
Private	131 (19.8)
Ward type
Surgery	156 (26)
Medicine	116 (19.4)
Intensive care	64 (10.7)
Pediatric	87 (14.5)
Gynecologists & obstetrics	59 (9.8)
Others	117 (19.5)
Patients seen by week	101.09 ± 110.045 [0–1000]
Years qualified
≤5 years	244 (39.7)
6–10 years	133 (21.6)
11–15 years	105 (17.1)
>15	133 (21.6)