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Physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell disease patients in Jazan, Saudi Arabia
OBJECTIVES: To explore physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell patients in Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS: A cross-sectional study conducted in Jazan, KSA from November 2018 to March 2019. A convenience sample of nurses and physicians (N=244) from 12 hospi...
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Saudi Medical Journal
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7502954/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789425 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.8.25183 |
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author | Hazzazi, Ahmad A. Ageeli, Mohssen H. Sharahili, Khalid A. Hamaly, Hesham M. Aqeeli, Mohammad H. Altherwi, Tawfeeq I. Bakkar, Mohammed Malhan, Hafiz |
author_facet | Hazzazi, Ahmad A. Ageeli, Mohssen H. Sharahili, Khalid A. Hamaly, Hesham M. Aqeeli, Mohammad H. Altherwi, Tawfeeq I. Bakkar, Mohammed Malhan, Hafiz |
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description | OBJECTIVES: To explore physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell patients in Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS: A cross-sectional study conducted in Jazan, KSA from November 2018 to March 2019. A convenience sample of nurses and physicians (N=244) from 12 hospitals in Jazan region completed the general perceptions about sickle cell disease patients scale questionnaire. Inferential statistics were conducted as appropriate to compare attitudes among groups within all variables. A p<0.05 was considered significant. RESULTS: The response rate was 81%. The mean age was 33.73±7.89 years. Approximately, half of the participants were nurses (54.9%) and 40.8% were males. In comparison with physicians (39.6%), approximately two-thirds (65.7%) of nurses have more negative attitudes (p=0.000). Emergency healthcare providers have more negative attitudes than providers in the pediatric department (p=0.043). Those treating primarily children had higher positive attitude than those treating adults (p=0.013) or treating both, (p=0.017). Emergency providers (p=0.000), and internal medicine providers (p=0.001), had higher concern-raising behaviors’ scale scores than pediatric providers. CONCLUSION: Findings highlight a significant proportion of providers in Jazan region, KSA, to have negative attitudes toward and high concerns about drug-seeking behaviors among sickle cell patients. These attitudes can contribute to lower quality of care for people with sickle cell disease. Further studies are recommended to find out the factors behind these attitudes as well as the adherence to guidelines in the management of sickle cell disease. |
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spelling | pubmed-75029542021-03-11 Physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell disease patients in Jazan, Saudi Arabia Hazzazi, Ahmad A. Ageeli, Mohssen H. Sharahili, Khalid A. Hamaly, Hesham M. Aqeeli, Mohammad H. Altherwi, Tawfeeq I. Bakkar, Mohammed Malhan, Hafiz Saudi Med J Original Article OBJECTIVES: To explore physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell patients in Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS: A cross-sectional study conducted in Jazan, KSA from November 2018 to March 2019. A convenience sample of nurses and physicians (N=244) from 12 hospitals in Jazan region completed the general perceptions about sickle cell disease patients scale questionnaire. Inferential statistics were conducted as appropriate to compare attitudes among groups within all variables. A p<0.05 was considered significant. RESULTS: The response rate was 81%. The mean age was 33.73±7.89 years. Approximately, half of the participants were nurses (54.9%) and 40.8% were males. In comparison with physicians (39.6%), approximately two-thirds (65.7%) of nurses have more negative attitudes (p=0.000). Emergency healthcare providers have more negative attitudes than providers in the pediatric department (p=0.043). Those treating primarily children had higher positive attitude than those treating adults (p=0.013) or treating both, (p=0.017). Emergency providers (p=0.000), and internal medicine providers (p=0.001), had higher concern-raising behaviors’ scale scores than pediatric providers. CONCLUSION: Findings highlight a significant proportion of providers in Jazan region, KSA, to have negative attitudes toward and high concerns about drug-seeking behaviors among sickle cell patients. These attitudes can contribute to lower quality of care for people with sickle cell disease. Further studies are recommended to find out the factors behind these attitudes as well as the adherence to guidelines in the management of sickle cell disease. Saudi Medical Journal 2020-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7502954/ /pubmed/32789425 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.8.25183 Text en Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Hazzazi, Ahmad A. Ageeli, Mohssen H. Sharahili, Khalid A. Hamaly, Hesham M. Aqeeli, Mohammad H. Altherwi, Tawfeeq I. Bakkar, Mohammed Malhan, Hafiz Physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell disease patients in Jazan, Saudi Arabia |
title | Physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell disease patients in Jazan, Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell disease patients in Jazan, Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell disease patients in Jazan, Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell disease patients in Jazan, Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell disease patients in Jazan, Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | physicians’ and nurses’ perceptions and attitudes toward sickle cell disease patients in jazan, saudi arabia |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7502954/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789425 http://dx.doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.8.25183 |
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