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Physicians' perception of childhood asthma in Turkey: more appropriate practice among female physicians

BACKGROUND: Low levels of asthma control worldwide point to the possibility of sub-optimal management; therefore, documentation of physicians' perception is critical for future interventions. Our aim was to examine self-reported management abilities of Turkish physicians dealing with children w...

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Autores principales: Soyer, Ozge Uysal, Civelek, Ersoy, Sekerel, Bulent E
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2488342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18651938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-155
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author Soyer, Ozge Uysal
Civelek, Ersoy
Sekerel, Bulent E
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description BACKGROUND: Low levels of asthma control worldwide point to the possibility of sub-optimal management; therefore, documentation of physicians' perception is critical for future interventions. Our aim was to examine self-reported management abilities of Turkish physicians dealing with children with asthma, document the factors affecting appropriate decisions and compare the results with those of a previous survey. METHODS: Physicians were surveyed via a questionnaire aimed to document self-perceived asthma knowledge and attitudes in asthma management. RESULTS: The majority of physicians were male (63%) and examined 234 ± 9 patients per week. Infrequent use of objective parameters in asthma diagnosis and attack severity assessment was reported and most preferred nebulized corticosteroids to the systemic form in acute asthma. Even though self-perceived overall asthma knowledge did not differ between genders (p = 0.098), male physicians scored higher than females for inhaled steroids for acute asthma (2.8 ± 0.12 vs 2.17 ± 0.2, respectively, p = 0.007), while female physicians recorded more frequent use of inhaled steroids for chronic asthma (3.72 ± 0.08 vs 3.43 ± 0.07, respectively, p = 0.006). Female physicians' scoring for "symptom control" as the main aim of asthma management was higher than that of their male counterparts (3.88 ± 0.04 vs 3.65 ± 0.06, respectively, p = 0.002). CONCLUSION: Although there were some discrepancies between guidelines and clinical practice, most applications of Turkish physicians dealing with children with asthma were appropriate. Interestingly, when scores of female versus male physicians were compared, it can be suggested that female physicians have a more appropriate perception of asthma, indicating a significant contribution of gender-related factors in clinical attitudes and beliefs.
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spelling pubmed-24883422008-07-29 Physicians' perception of childhood asthma in Turkey: more appropriate practice among female physicians Soyer, Ozge Uysal Civelek, Ersoy Sekerel, Bulent E BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Low levels of asthma control worldwide point to the possibility of sub-optimal management; therefore, documentation of physicians' perception is critical for future interventions. Our aim was to examine self-reported management abilities of Turkish physicians dealing with children with asthma, document the factors affecting appropriate decisions and compare the results with those of a previous survey. METHODS: Physicians were surveyed via a questionnaire aimed to document self-perceived asthma knowledge and attitudes in asthma management. RESULTS: The majority of physicians were male (63%) and examined 234 ± 9 patients per week. Infrequent use of objective parameters in asthma diagnosis and attack severity assessment was reported and most preferred nebulized corticosteroids to the systemic form in acute asthma. Even though self-perceived overall asthma knowledge did not differ between genders (p = 0.098), male physicians scored higher than females for inhaled steroids for acute asthma (2.8 ± 0.12 vs 2.17 ± 0.2, respectively, p = 0.007), while female physicians recorded more frequent use of inhaled steroids for chronic asthma (3.72 ± 0.08 vs 3.43 ± 0.07, respectively, p = 0.006). Female physicians' scoring for "symptom control" as the main aim of asthma management was higher than that of their male counterparts (3.88 ± 0.04 vs 3.65 ± 0.06, respectively, p = 0.002). CONCLUSION: Although there were some discrepancies between guidelines and clinical practice, most applications of Turkish physicians dealing with children with asthma were appropriate. Interestingly, when scores of female versus male physicians were compared, it can be suggested that female physicians have a more appropriate perception of asthma, indicating a significant contribution of gender-related factors in clinical attitudes and beliefs. BioMed Central 2008-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2488342/ /pubmed/18651938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-155 Text en Copyright © 2008 Soyer et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Physicians' perception of childhood asthma in Turkey: more appropriate practice among female physicians
title_fullStr Physicians' perception of childhood asthma in Turkey: more appropriate practice among female physicians
title_full_unstemmed Physicians' perception of childhood asthma in Turkey: more appropriate practice among female physicians
title_short Physicians' perception of childhood asthma in Turkey: more appropriate practice among female physicians
title_sort physicians' perception of childhood asthma in turkey: more appropriate practice among female physicians
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2488342/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18651938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-155
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