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Patients’ perception of the practice of anaesthesia in a teaching hospital in Northern Jordan: a survey

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Despite big leaps of progress in its scope, the practice of anesthesia is still suffering from poor public image, especially in developing countries. Little research investigated the public awareness of anesthesia in the Middle East. This study aimed to examine the perception of...

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Autores principales: Bataineh, Adel M., Qudaisat, Ibraheem Y., El-Radaideh, Khaled, Alzoubi, Rawand A., Abu-Shehab, Mohammad I.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7604332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33138779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-020-01193-6
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author Bataineh, Adel M.
Qudaisat, Ibraheem Y.
El-Radaideh, Khaled
Alzoubi, Rawand A.
Abu-Shehab, Mohammad I.
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Qudaisat, Ibraheem Y.
El-Radaideh, Khaled
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Abu-Shehab, Mohammad I.
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description BACKGROUND AND AIM: Despite big leaps of progress in its scope, the practice of anesthesia is still suffering from poor public image, especially in developing countries. Little research investigated the public awareness of anesthesia in the Middle East. This study aimed to examine the perception of the practice of anaesthesia among Jordanian patients. METHODS: A standard questionnaire with 29 questions was administered through personal interview to consenting patients. Questions tested patients’ correct knowledge of the identity of anesthetists, their roles and scope of their practice. Awareness was measured using the frequency of correct answers to each survey question. A total awareness score was calculated as the percentage ratio of the number of correct answers to the total number of questions. We classified this score into: Poor< 50%. Moderate 50–75%, and Good > 75% to reflect patient’s overall perception of anesthetists and their roles. Effects of demographic variables on results were also investigated. Appropriate statistical tests were used to summarize and compare results. A total of 513 patients admitted for elective surgery were sequentially approached for enrolment. RESULTS: Five hundred and five patients were enrolled. Most patients identified anesthesia as a separate practice from surgery (86%). The anaesthetist was identified as a physician by only 37% of patients. Equal importance to both anaesthetists and surgeons was assumed by 71.5% of patents. Only 15% of patients showed good level of total knowledge of anaesthetist roles, while 51% scored poorly. Highest awareness was of anaesthetist’s preoperative roles (65.1%). Age was the only demographic factor affecting studied awareness (P = 0.009). CONCLUSION: Although the importance of anesthetist is well perceived among Jordanian patients, there is still some ignorance in their knowledge of the details of anesthesia practice. Active communication efforts and patient education by anesthetists are needed to improve the public status of the specialty. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12871-020-01193-6.
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spelling pubmed-76043322020-11-02 Patients’ perception of the practice of anaesthesia in a teaching hospital in Northern Jordan: a survey Bataineh, Adel M. Qudaisat, Ibraheem Y. El-Radaideh, Khaled Alzoubi, Rawand A. Abu-Shehab, Mohammad I. BMC Anesthesiol Research Article BACKGROUND AND AIM: Despite big leaps of progress in its scope, the practice of anesthesia is still suffering from poor public image, especially in developing countries. Little research investigated the public awareness of anesthesia in the Middle East. This study aimed to examine the perception of the practice of anaesthesia among Jordanian patients. METHODS: A standard questionnaire with 29 questions was administered through personal interview to consenting patients. Questions tested patients’ correct knowledge of the identity of anesthetists, their roles and scope of their practice. Awareness was measured using the frequency of correct answers to each survey question. A total awareness score was calculated as the percentage ratio of the number of correct answers to the total number of questions. We classified this score into: Poor< 50%. Moderate 50–75%, and Good > 75% to reflect patient’s overall perception of anesthetists and their roles. Effects of demographic variables on results were also investigated. Appropriate statistical tests were used to summarize and compare results. A total of 513 patients admitted for elective surgery were sequentially approached for enrolment. RESULTS: Five hundred and five patients were enrolled. Most patients identified anesthesia as a separate practice from surgery (86%). The anaesthetist was identified as a physician by only 37% of patients. Equal importance to both anaesthetists and surgeons was assumed by 71.5% of patents. Only 15% of patients showed good level of total knowledge of anaesthetist roles, while 51% scored poorly. Highest awareness was of anaesthetist’s preoperative roles (65.1%). Age was the only demographic factor affecting studied awareness (P = 0.009). CONCLUSION: Although the importance of anesthetist is well perceived among Jordanian patients, there is still some ignorance in their knowledge of the details of anesthesia practice. Active communication efforts and patient education by anesthetists are needed to improve the public status of the specialty. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12871-020-01193-6. BioMed Central 2020-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7604332/ /pubmed/33138779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-020-01193-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Qudaisat, Ibraheem Y.
El-Radaideh, Khaled
Alzoubi, Rawand A.
Abu-Shehab, Mohammad I.
Patients’ perception of the practice of anaesthesia in a teaching hospital in Northern Jordan: a survey
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title_short Patients’ perception of the practice of anaesthesia in a teaching hospital in Northern Jordan: a survey
title_sort patients’ perception of the practice of anaesthesia in a teaching hospital in northern jordan: a survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7604332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33138779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-020-01193-6
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