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Patients’ Satisfaction With the Quality of Services at Primary Healthcare Centers in Saudi Arabia

Background: Patients’ satisfaction is an essential indicator used to measure the quality of healthcare services. The evaluation of patients’ satisfaction with primary healthcare center (PHC) visits is therefore essential when it comes to assessing the quality of healthcare services provided. Aim: To...

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Autores principales: Alhajri, Shahad M, Aljehani, Najla M, El Dalatony, Mervat M, Alsuwayt, Saleh S, Alhumaidany, Turki M, Aldossary, Mohammed S
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Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10567608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37842386
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45066
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author Alhajri, Shahad M
Aljehani, Najla M
El Dalatony, Mervat M
Alsuwayt, Saleh S
Alhumaidany, Turki M
Aldossary, Mohammed S
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Aljehani, Najla M
El Dalatony, Mervat M
Alsuwayt, Saleh S
Alhumaidany, Turki M
Aldossary, Mohammed S
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description Background: Patients’ satisfaction is an essential indicator used to measure the quality of healthcare services. The evaluation of patients’ satisfaction with primary healthcare center (PHC) visits is therefore essential when it comes to assessing the quality of healthcare services provided. Aim: To assess patients’ overall satisfaction with the quality of services provided at PHCs in different regions of Saudi Arabia. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted using secondary data collected from 2,390 PHCs in different regions of Saudi Arabia. Data were collected by the Patient Experience Measurement Program in the Ministry of Health (MOH) using the Press Ganey Survey from January 2022 to December 2022. The Press Ganey Survey is a standardized tool used by the Saudi MOH to assess patients’ satisfaction with the health services provided in different specialties and healthcare facilities. The assessment tool (Press Ganey survey) involves six domains (Access, Moving through, Nurse, Care provider, Personal issue, and Overall assessment). The data were tabulated and analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Results: In total, there were 536,406 study participants, with their mean age being 28.7±21.1. The overall patients’ satisfaction score was 4.2 out of 5 (83.8%). Male participants reported more satisfaction with PHC services than did females (86.6%, 81%), respectively. The domain with the highest patients’ satisfaction scores was that of the Care provider (84.8%), while the domain with the lowest rating was Moving through (82.8%). Conclusion: This baseline study found that patients were generally satisfied, with the highest levels of satisfaction with their care providers, highlighting the crucial role of professionals in the patient experience. Further research is recommended to give a more in-depth analysis and thus highlight additional correlating and predicted elements of patients' satisfaction with PHC treatments in Saudi Arabia.
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spelling pubmed-105676082023-10-13 Patients’ Satisfaction With the Quality of Services at Primary Healthcare Centers in Saudi Arabia Alhajri, Shahad M Aljehani, Najla M El Dalatony, Mervat M Alsuwayt, Saleh S Alhumaidany, Turki M Aldossary, Mohammed S Cureus Family/General Practice Background: Patients’ satisfaction is an essential indicator used to measure the quality of healthcare services. The evaluation of patients’ satisfaction with primary healthcare center (PHC) visits is therefore essential when it comes to assessing the quality of healthcare services provided. Aim: To assess patients’ overall satisfaction with the quality of services provided at PHCs in different regions of Saudi Arabia. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted using secondary data collected from 2,390 PHCs in different regions of Saudi Arabia. Data were collected by the Patient Experience Measurement Program in the Ministry of Health (MOH) using the Press Ganey Survey from January 2022 to December 2022. The Press Ganey Survey is a standardized tool used by the Saudi MOH to assess patients’ satisfaction with the health services provided in different specialties and healthcare facilities. The assessment tool (Press Ganey survey) involves six domains (Access, Moving through, Nurse, Care provider, Personal issue, and Overall assessment). The data were tabulated and analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Results: In total, there were 536,406 study participants, with their mean age being 28.7±21.1. The overall patients’ satisfaction score was 4.2 out of 5 (83.8%). Male participants reported more satisfaction with PHC services than did females (86.6%, 81%), respectively. The domain with the highest patients’ satisfaction scores was that of the Care provider (84.8%), while the domain with the lowest rating was Moving through (82.8%). Conclusion: This baseline study found that patients were generally satisfied, with the highest levels of satisfaction with their care providers, highlighting the crucial role of professionals in the patient experience. Further research is recommended to give a more in-depth analysis and thus highlight additional correlating and predicted elements of patients' satisfaction with PHC treatments in Saudi Arabia. Cureus 2023-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10567608/ /pubmed/37842386 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45066 Text en Copyright © 2023, Alhajri et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Aljehani, Najla M
El Dalatony, Mervat M
Alsuwayt, Saleh S
Alhumaidany, Turki M
Aldossary, Mohammed S
Patients’ Satisfaction With the Quality of Services at Primary Healthcare Centers in Saudi Arabia
title Patients’ Satisfaction With the Quality of Services at Primary Healthcare Centers in Saudi Arabia
title_full Patients’ Satisfaction With the Quality of Services at Primary Healthcare Centers in Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Patients’ Satisfaction With the Quality of Services at Primary Healthcare Centers in Saudi Arabia
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title_short Patients’ Satisfaction With the Quality of Services at Primary Healthcare Centers in Saudi Arabia
title_sort patients’ satisfaction with the quality of services at primary healthcare centers in saudi arabia
topic Family/General Practice
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10567608/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37842386
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.45066
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