Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitudes about Adult Post-Operative Pain Assessment and Management: Cross Sectional Study in Qatar

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Tank you for the opportunity to revise the manuscript entitled “Nurses’ knowledge and attitudes about adult post-operative pain assessment and management: cross sectional study in Qatar”.

Here some comments from me.

1) This manuscript used the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) model to examine pain assessment and management from the nurses’ role. It would be useful to refer to this framework in the background with the proper references.

2) The “Knowledge and Attitudes Survey Regarding Pain” tool can be used to assess nurses and other professionals toward pain management. In which language was the scale administered? The instrument's origin reference is missing. What are its psychometric properties? Is there any tool validation available for the Qatar contexts of care? The tool has been revised over the years to reflect changes in pain management practice. Which version did you use in this study?

3) Table 4 is not necessary.

Table 1. Legend is missing, so all the acronyms used are not understandable for the reader (e.g., SD, ACC). Same for Table 2 and Table 3.

Table 2. It is not necessary to report both the correct and the incorrect frequencies and percentages. Please, select one of them.

4) Authors stated that “The universal sample included 150 eligible nurses”. Then, they declared that “A total of 151 post-operative nurses responded to the survey (100% response rate)”. I've never read a study where there were 100% answers (in this case, one more!). How do the authors explain this?

5) Setting is not well-described. How many wards? How many beds? What kind of surgery is performed?

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

paper from Qatar 

Overall

I think the paper needs to go for English editing 

Abstract: 

The background needs to be before the aim rather than after the aim of the study.

Introduction 

The introduction is short; you need to expand it and add a summary of literature that examines your topic worldwide and in Arab countries. 

Methodology 

Sampling (150 nurses ) is low. Why did you only choose one medical center? 

Did you another exclusion criteria, such as nurses need to have at least ......experience? 

Ethical considerations need to be expanded. 

Conculsion and discussion 

Please update the review with more recent sources to ensure relevance. ( this topic has been examined many times worldwide, so please update the references.) 

 

Comments on the Quality of English Language

I think the paper needs to go for English editing. 

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Reviewer 3 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The author does not mention if the intrsument has been translated in arabic or has been distributed in English. So there was not a validation of the instrument.

Too descriptive the results. No scientific results were mentioned.

Comments on the Quality of English Language

Minor editing of English language required

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Thank you for revieweing your manuscript. 

You have amended all my suggestions. 

 

Reviewer 3 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Accepted