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Parental awareness, knowledge, and attitude about shaken baby syndrome in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study
INTRODUCTION: shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is an abusive head trauma inflicted on infants and young children. Injuries induced by shaking can result in death or permanent neurologic disability. It is difficult to know the exact number of SBS cases per year because many cases of SBS are not reported an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9268337/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35865845 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.41.327.33708 |
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author | AlOmran, Hanan Ibrahim AlKharaan, Zaid Ibrahim AlDawsari, Khalid Mubarak AlDakkan, Osamah Zeid AlAtif, Hamad Mesfer Mohamed, Manal Zaher Elewa |
author_facet | AlOmran, Hanan Ibrahim AlKharaan, Zaid Ibrahim AlDawsari, Khalid Mubarak AlDakkan, Osamah Zeid AlAtif, Hamad Mesfer Mohamed, Manal Zaher Elewa |
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description | INTRODUCTION: shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is an abusive head trauma inflicted on infants and young children. Injuries induced by shaking can result in death or permanent neurologic disability. It is difficult to know the exact number of SBS cases per year because many cases of SBS are not reported and/or never receive a diagnosis. From a public health perspective, creating greater awareness about SBS is important. Previous studies have revealed poor awareness and knowledge about shaken baby syndrome. In this study our aims to investigate the awareness, knowledge level, and attitude regarding shaken baby syndrome and to highlight the sources and factors associated with SBS knowledge among parents of the pediatric population in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. METHODS: a cross-sectional study was conducted between January 2021 and September 2021. A validated electronic questionnaire was distributed among parents of the pediatric population in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia using the convenient random sampling method; SPSS version 22 was used to analyze the collected data. RESULTS: the study involved 577 participants; 59.8% were mothers and 96.5% were Saudis. A total of 32.1% had previously heard about SBS. The overall knowledge mean score was low (2.95 + 1.74), and attitude was positive among 82.5% of the participants. The factors significantly associated with knowledge level were gender, marital status, and occupation. CONCLUSION: the participants had poor knowledge and awareness about SBS, but, despite that, they expressed a positive attitude toward learning more about it. This should prompt health authorities to increase efforts to improve public awareness and knowledge about SBS. |
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spelling | pubmed-92683372022-07-20 Parental awareness, knowledge, and attitude about shaken baby syndrome in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study AlOmran, Hanan Ibrahim AlKharaan, Zaid Ibrahim AlDawsari, Khalid Mubarak AlDakkan, Osamah Zeid AlAtif, Hamad Mesfer Mohamed, Manal Zaher Elewa Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is an abusive head trauma inflicted on infants and young children. Injuries induced by shaking can result in death or permanent neurologic disability. It is difficult to know the exact number of SBS cases per year because many cases of SBS are not reported and/or never receive a diagnosis. From a public health perspective, creating greater awareness about SBS is important. Previous studies have revealed poor awareness and knowledge about shaken baby syndrome. In this study our aims to investigate the awareness, knowledge level, and attitude regarding shaken baby syndrome and to highlight the sources and factors associated with SBS knowledge among parents of the pediatric population in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. METHODS: a cross-sectional study was conducted between January 2021 and September 2021. A validated electronic questionnaire was distributed among parents of the pediatric population in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia using the convenient random sampling method; SPSS version 22 was used to analyze the collected data. RESULTS: the study involved 577 participants; 59.8% were mothers and 96.5% were Saudis. A total of 32.1% had previously heard about SBS. The overall knowledge mean score was low (2.95 + 1.74), and attitude was positive among 82.5% of the participants. The factors significantly associated with knowledge level were gender, marital status, and occupation. CONCLUSION: the participants had poor knowledge and awareness about SBS, but, despite that, they expressed a positive attitude toward learning more about it. This should prompt health authorities to increase efforts to improve public awareness and knowledge about SBS. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2022-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9268337/ /pubmed/35865845 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.41.327.33708 Text en Copyright: Hanan Ibrahim AlOmran et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research AlOmran, Hanan Ibrahim AlKharaan, Zaid Ibrahim AlDawsari, Khalid Mubarak AlDakkan, Osamah Zeid AlAtif, Hamad Mesfer Mohamed, Manal Zaher Elewa Parental awareness, knowledge, and attitude about shaken baby syndrome in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study |
title | Parental awareness, knowledge, and attitude about shaken baby syndrome in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Parental awareness, knowledge, and attitude about shaken baby syndrome in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Parental awareness, knowledge, and attitude about shaken baby syndrome in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Parental awareness, knowledge, and attitude about shaken baby syndrome in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Parental awareness, knowledge, and attitude about shaken baby syndrome in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | parental awareness, knowledge, and attitude about shaken baby syndrome in riyadh, saudi arabia: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9268337/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35865845 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2022.41.327.33708 |
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