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People's knowledge, attitudes, practice, and healthcare education demand regarding OSA: a cross-sectional study among Chinese general populations

BACKGROUND: Population knowledge and attitudes toward obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome are critical to public health initiatives to overcome the disease. Healthcare education is an appropriate approach to expediting the process to build active medical practice models in the public. OBJECTIVE:...

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Autores principales: Pan, Zhongjing, Ma, Tianpei, Zeng, Qinghan, Xu, Ting, Ran, Qiong, Li, Tianming, Lu, Dan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10372425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37521967
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1128334
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author Pan, Zhongjing
Ma, Tianpei
Zeng, Qinghan
Xu, Ting
Ran, Qiong
Li, Tianming
Lu, Dan
author_facet Pan, Zhongjing
Ma, Tianpei
Zeng, Qinghan
Xu, Ting
Ran, Qiong
Li, Tianming
Lu, Dan
author_sort Pan, Zhongjing
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description BACKGROUND: Population knowledge and attitudes toward obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome are critical to public health initiatives to overcome the disease. Healthcare education is an appropriate approach to expediting the process to build active medical practice models in the public. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) regarding OSA and healthcare education demand among the Chinese general population. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was performed online via Wenjuanxing in China between 8 February and 8 March 2022, using a 34-item questionnaire designed and reviewed by multidisciplinary experts. RESULTS: This study enrolled 1507 respondents, aged 18 to 68, with a city-to-countryside ratio of approximately 2:1. Four-fifths of respondents reported that they had children (n = 1237), and mothers accounted for 57.7%. If they or their children had symptoms of OSA, nearly nine in 10 respondents would undertake positive medical practices, especially parents. A total of 89.4% of the respondents reported a desire to receive healthcare education through the new multimedia approach, and most were concerned about the etiology of OSA. CONCLUSION: The current study indicated that even the higher educated and urban populations in China had insufficient knowledge about positive attitudes toward and practices regarding OSA, indicating an urgent demand for healthcare education. A special emphasis should be placed on appropriating population demand for healthcare education and promoting the benefits of active medical practice models in sleep medicine.
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spelling pubmed-103724252023-07-28 People's knowledge, attitudes, practice, and healthcare education demand regarding OSA: a cross-sectional study among Chinese general populations Pan, Zhongjing Ma, Tianpei Zeng, Qinghan Xu, Ting Ran, Qiong Li, Tianming Lu, Dan Front Public Health Public Health BACKGROUND: Population knowledge and attitudes toward obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome are critical to public health initiatives to overcome the disease. Healthcare education is an appropriate approach to expediting the process to build active medical practice models in the public. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) regarding OSA and healthcare education demand among the Chinese general population. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was performed online via Wenjuanxing in China between 8 February and 8 March 2022, using a 34-item questionnaire designed and reviewed by multidisciplinary experts. RESULTS: This study enrolled 1507 respondents, aged 18 to 68, with a city-to-countryside ratio of approximately 2:1. Four-fifths of respondents reported that they had children (n = 1237), and mothers accounted for 57.7%. If they or their children had symptoms of OSA, nearly nine in 10 respondents would undertake positive medical practices, especially parents. A total of 89.4% of the respondents reported a desire to receive healthcare education through the new multimedia approach, and most were concerned about the etiology of OSA. CONCLUSION: The current study indicated that even the higher educated and urban populations in China had insufficient knowledge about positive attitudes toward and practices regarding OSA, indicating an urgent demand for healthcare education. A special emphasis should be placed on appropriating population demand for healthcare education and promoting the benefits of active medical practice models in sleep medicine. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10372425/ /pubmed/37521967 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1128334 Text en Copyright © 2023 Pan, Ma, Zeng, Xu, Ran, Li and Lu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Pan, Zhongjing
Ma, Tianpei
Zeng, Qinghan
Xu, Ting
Ran, Qiong
Li, Tianming
Lu, Dan
People's knowledge, attitudes, practice, and healthcare education demand regarding OSA: a cross-sectional study among Chinese general populations
title People's knowledge, attitudes, practice, and healthcare education demand regarding OSA: a cross-sectional study among Chinese general populations
title_full People's knowledge, attitudes, practice, and healthcare education demand regarding OSA: a cross-sectional study among Chinese general populations
title_fullStr People's knowledge, attitudes, practice, and healthcare education demand regarding OSA: a cross-sectional study among Chinese general populations
title_full_unstemmed People's knowledge, attitudes, practice, and healthcare education demand regarding OSA: a cross-sectional study among Chinese general populations
title_short People's knowledge, attitudes, practice, and healthcare education demand regarding OSA: a cross-sectional study among Chinese general populations
title_sort people's knowledge, attitudes, practice, and healthcare education demand regarding osa: a cross-sectional study among chinese general populations
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10372425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37521967
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1128334
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