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Impact of Diabetes Continuing Education on Primary Healthcare Physicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the impact of diabetes mellitus (DM) continuing education (CE) programs on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of primary healthcare physicians (PHPs) in the Arab world. Accordingly, we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a diabetes CE program on the knowledg...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585801/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33117050 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S275872 |
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author | Almetahr, Hosam Almutahar, Ethar Alkhaldi, Yahia Alshehri, Ibrahim Assiri, Ali Shehata, Shehata Alsabaani, Abdullah |
author_facet | Almetahr, Hosam Almutahar, Ethar Alkhaldi, Yahia Alshehri, Ibrahim Assiri, Ali Shehata, Shehata Alsabaani, Abdullah |
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description | BACKGROUND: Little is known about the impact of diabetes mellitus (DM) continuing education (CE) programs on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of primary healthcare physicians (PHPs) in the Arab world. Accordingly, we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a diabetes CE program on the knowledge, attitudes and practices of PHPs in Aseer region, Saudi Arabia. METHODS: This was a quasi-experimental study using a pre-test and post-test design. PHPs attended a three-day diabetes CE session and completed a standardized questionnaire before and after the training session. Also, their practices were assessed by reviewing the records of patients with DM before the CE program and three months later. RESULTS: A total of 51 PHPs completed the CE program. The sample had a mean (± SD) age of 33.8 ± 6.0 years, and 72.5% were male. The mean knowledge score increased from 14.33 (± 3.37) to 17.61 (± 2.57) (p < 0.001), and the rate of good knowledge increased from 39 (76.5%) before to 51 (100.0%) after (p < 0.001). There was no significant difference in the mean attitude scores before and after the intervention (3.79 vs 3.86; p = 0.10), respectively. Overall, PHPs’ practices related to glycosylated hemoglobin estimation (p = 0.004), foot care (p = 0.02), diet (p < 0.001), exercise (p <0.001), and weight assessment (p < 0.001) significantly improved following the intervention. CONCLUSION: The CE program for PHPs was effective in addressing knowledge gap of PHPs and in improving their practices towards quality patient care. |
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spelling | pubmed-75858012020-10-27 Impact of Diabetes Continuing Education on Primary Healthcare Physicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Almetahr, Hosam Almutahar, Ethar Alkhaldi, Yahia Alshehri, Ibrahim Assiri, Ali Shehata, Shehata Alsabaani, Abdullah Adv Med Educ Pract Original Research BACKGROUND: Little is known about the impact of diabetes mellitus (DM) continuing education (CE) programs on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of primary healthcare physicians (PHPs) in the Arab world. Accordingly, we aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a diabetes CE program on the knowledge, attitudes and practices of PHPs in Aseer region, Saudi Arabia. METHODS: This was a quasi-experimental study using a pre-test and post-test design. PHPs attended a three-day diabetes CE session and completed a standardized questionnaire before and after the training session. Also, their practices were assessed by reviewing the records of patients with DM before the CE program and three months later. RESULTS: A total of 51 PHPs completed the CE program. The sample had a mean (± SD) age of 33.8 ± 6.0 years, and 72.5% were male. The mean knowledge score increased from 14.33 (± 3.37) to 17.61 (± 2.57) (p < 0.001), and the rate of good knowledge increased from 39 (76.5%) before to 51 (100.0%) after (p < 0.001). There was no significant difference in the mean attitude scores before and after the intervention (3.79 vs 3.86; p = 0.10), respectively. Overall, PHPs’ practices related to glycosylated hemoglobin estimation (p = 0.004), foot care (p = 0.02), diet (p < 0.001), exercise (p <0.001), and weight assessment (p < 0.001) significantly improved following the intervention. CONCLUSION: The CE program for PHPs was effective in addressing knowledge gap of PHPs and in improving their practices towards quality patient care. Dove 2020-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7585801/ /pubmed/33117050 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S275872 Text en © 2020 Almetahr et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Almetahr, Hosam Almutahar, Ethar Alkhaldi, Yahia Alshehri, Ibrahim Assiri, Ali Shehata, Shehata Alsabaani, Abdullah Impact of Diabetes Continuing Education on Primary Healthcare Physicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices |
title | Impact of Diabetes Continuing Education on Primary Healthcare Physicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices |
title_full | Impact of Diabetes Continuing Education on Primary Healthcare Physicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices |
title_fullStr | Impact of Diabetes Continuing Education on Primary Healthcare Physicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of Diabetes Continuing Education on Primary Healthcare Physicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices |
title_short | Impact of Diabetes Continuing Education on Primary Healthcare Physicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices |
title_sort | impact of diabetes continuing education on primary healthcare physicians’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7585801/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33117050 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S275872 |
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