Chanyalew Worku Kassahun
About
Grants and Awards
• Principal Investigator (PI): Working environment of nurses: effect on professionalism, patients’ handover and nurse-sensitive patient outcomes in Public Referral Hospitals of West Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia. Awarded by University of Gondar, Ethiopia. • Principal Investigator: Knowledge and attitude of nurses’ towards patient’s oral care at University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia. Awarded by Madda Walabu University, Ethiopia • Co-PI: Acceptability of post-natal IUCD utilization and associated factors among post-natal mothers in Bale Zone. Awarded by Madda Walabu university, Ethiopia • Co-PI: Risk Factors of Hyperemesis Gravidarum among Pregnant Women in Bale Zone Hospitals, Southeast Ethiopia: Unmatched Case-Control Study. Awarded by Madda Walabu University, Ethiopia.
Supervision
Primary Supervisor (Masters) 1. Huluager Kassie: Missed nursing care and associated factors among nurses at university of Gondar Comprehensive specialized hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2022. 2. Alebachew Ferede Zegeye: Knowledge, practice and associated factors of catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention among nurses working at University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021 3. Mahlet Temesgen Alem: Failed clinical anastomosis and associated factors among patients who had intestinal anastomosis in Northwest Amhara regional state referral hospitals,Ethiopia,2020 4. Mohammed Sied Ali: Over nutrition and Associated Factors: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study between Government and Private Primary School Students in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2019. 5. Dejen Getaneh Feleke: Non-exclusive breast feeding and its factors in the first 6-months among mother-infant pairs of 6-12 months in Debretabor Town, northwest Ethiopia,2019 6. Senait Tadesse Andargie: Knowledge and attitude of nurses’ towards patient’s oral care at University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia, 2018
Publication
1. Kassahun, C.W., Abate, A.T., Tezera, Z.B. et al. Working environment of nurses in public referral hospitals of West Amhara, Ethiopia, 2021. BMC Nurs 21, 167 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-00944-9 2. Kassahun CW, Abate HK, Abate AT, Tezera ZB, Tesgera Beshah D, Agegnehu CD, Getnet MA, Yazew BG, Alemu MT, Mekonenn CK. Incidence and associated factors of failed first peripheral intravenous catheters among adult patients at medical surgical wards in Public Referral Hospitals of West Amhara, Ethiopia, 2021 (in press) 3. Ali MS, Kassahun C.W, Wubneh CA, Mekonen EG , Workneh BS . Undernutrition among private and public primary school children: A comparative cross-sectional study towards nutritional transition in Northwest Ethiopia. Elsevier. 2021. Https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nut.2021.111575 4. Abate HK, Abate AT, Tezera ZB, Tesgera Beshah D, Agegnehu CD, Getnet MA, Yazew BG, Alemu MT, Mekonenn CK, Kassahun CW. The Magnitude of Perceived Professionalism and Its Associated Factors among Nurses in Public Referral Hospitals of West Amhara, Ethiopia. Nursing: Research and Reviews. 2021; 11:21-30 https://doi.org/10.2147/NRR.S328749. 5. Feleke D. G , Kassahun, C.W., W/Mariam. T., Tassaw S.F , Chanie E. .Non-exclusive breast feeding and its factors in the first 6-month life of infants among mother-infant pairs of 6-12 months in Debre Tabor town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2019: community-based cross-sectional study.Heliyon. 2021 Apr; 7(4): e06922. 6. Sied M.A., Kassahun, C.W., Wubneh, C.A. Overnutrition and Associated Factors: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study between Government and Private Primary School Students in Gondar Town, Northwest Ethiopia. J Nutr Metab. 2020 Oct 1;2020:3670895. doi: 10.1155/2020/3670895. eCollection 2020. 7. Kassahun C.W., Asasaheg A., Hagos D., Ashenafi E., Tamene F., Addis G., Endalkachew K. Knowledge on Hypertension and Self-Care Practice among Adult Hypertensive Patients at University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia, 2019. Int J Hypertens. 2020 Apr 20;2020:5649165. doi: 10.1155/2020/5649165. eCollection 2020 8. Yazew, K.G., Kassahun, C.W., Ewnetie, A.W. et al. Recovery rate and determinants of severe acute malnutrition children treatment in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Syst Rev 8, 323 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-1249-4. 9. Andargie ST, Kassahun CW (2019). Knowledge and attitude of nurses’ towards patient’s oral care at University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia. International Journals of African Nursing Sciences 11 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2019.100165 10. Gonie A, Worku C, Assefa T, Bogale D ,Girma A. (2018). Acceptability of post-natal IUCD utilization and associated factors among post-natal mothers in Bale Zone. Contraception and Reproductive Medicine (2018) 3:16. 11. Kassahun, F., Worku, C., Nigussie, A., & Ganfurie, G. (2018). Prevalence of male attendance and associated factors at their partners’ antenatal visits among antenatal care attendees in Bale Zone, South East Ethiopia. International Journal of Nursing and Midwifery, 10(9), 109-120. 12. Mekonnen AG, Amogne FK, Kassahun CW (2018). Risk Factors of Hyperemesis Gravidarum among Pregnant Women in Bale Zone Hospitals, Southeast Ethiopia: Unmatched Case-Control Study. Clinics Mother Child Health 15:3. 13. Kassahun CW, Mekonen AG (2017). Knowledge, attitude, practices and their associated factors towards diabetes mellitus among non-diabetes community members of Bale Zone administrative towns, South East Ethiopia. A cross sectional study. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0170040. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0170040. 14. Hailu FB, Kassahun CW, Kerie MW (2016). Perceived Nurse—Physician Communication in Patient Care and Associated Factors in Public Hospitals of Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia: Cross Sectional Study. PLoS ONE 11(9):e0162264. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162264