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Parental Knowledge and Awareness of Childhood Urinary Tract Infections: A Cross Sectional Survey
BACKGROUND: Parent’s misconceptions or lack of knowledge about childhood urinary tract infections (UTIs) can negatively impact their children’s health. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the childhood urinary tract infections awareness and understanding among parents in Saudi Arabia. PA...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9444035/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36072916 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S361313 |
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author | Almatrafi, Mohammed A Sindi, Lama Alshehri, Malak Sendi, Esraa Sindi, Ghufran Alzahrani, Ghaida Alwan, Joud Salawati, Emad Alwafi, Hassan Minshawi, Faisal Mosalli, Rafat Samannodi, Mohammed |
author_facet | Almatrafi, Mohammed A Sindi, Lama Alshehri, Malak Sendi, Esraa Sindi, Ghufran Alzahrani, Ghaida Alwan, Joud Salawati, Emad Alwafi, Hassan Minshawi, Faisal Mosalli, Rafat Samannodi, Mohammed |
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description | BACKGROUND: Parent’s misconceptions or lack of knowledge about childhood urinary tract infections (UTIs) can negatively impact their children’s health. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the childhood urinary tract infections awareness and understanding among parents in Saudi Arabia. PATIENTS AND METHODS: An online validated cross-sectional survey of parents in Saudi Arabia was conducted from August to September 2021. Study participants who met the inclusion criteria were selected using a convenience sampling technique. A questionnaire with two domains was used to assess parental awareness of childhood urinary tract infection symptoms, complications, treatment, prevention, epidemiology, and diagnosis. The total childhood urinary tract infections awareness scores were classified into three categories: low awareness, moderate awareness, and high awareness. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the data distribution. A chi-square test was used to evaluate the relationship between parental awareness about urinary tract infections in children and other variables. Statistical significance was established at 0.05. RESULTS: Of the 1688 parents who completed the survey, 1289 (76.4%) were female, 1581 (93.7%) were married, and 1161 (68.8) had a university degree. Parent’s total awareness scores were high; however, individual domain scores indicate a moderate level of knowledge. Statistically significant relationship were observed between total awareness and gender, occupation, and level of educational level ((P=0.004, P=0.001, P=0.007, respectively). Another statistically significant relationship was noted between the history of urinary tract infections and awareness of disease prevention (P=0.009). CONCLUSION: In Saudi Arabia, parental knowledge about childhood urinary tract infections is moderate to high. However, future studies are needed to investigate gender, educational, and occupational variations in childhood UTI knowledge among parents in Saudi Arabia. |
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spelling | pubmed-94440352022-09-06 Parental Knowledge and Awareness of Childhood Urinary Tract Infections: A Cross Sectional Survey Almatrafi, Mohammed A Sindi, Lama Alshehri, Malak Sendi, Esraa Sindi, Ghufran Alzahrani, Ghaida Alwan, Joud Salawati, Emad Alwafi, Hassan Minshawi, Faisal Mosalli, Rafat Samannodi, Mohammed Patient Prefer Adherence Original Research BACKGROUND: Parent’s misconceptions or lack of knowledge about childhood urinary tract infections (UTIs) can negatively impact their children’s health. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the childhood urinary tract infections awareness and understanding among parents in Saudi Arabia. PATIENTS AND METHODS: An online validated cross-sectional survey of parents in Saudi Arabia was conducted from August to September 2021. Study participants who met the inclusion criteria were selected using a convenience sampling technique. A questionnaire with two domains was used to assess parental awareness of childhood urinary tract infection symptoms, complications, treatment, prevention, epidemiology, and diagnosis. The total childhood urinary tract infections awareness scores were classified into three categories: low awareness, moderate awareness, and high awareness. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the data distribution. A chi-square test was used to evaluate the relationship between parental awareness about urinary tract infections in children and other variables. Statistical significance was established at 0.05. RESULTS: Of the 1688 parents who completed the survey, 1289 (76.4%) were female, 1581 (93.7%) were married, and 1161 (68.8) had a university degree. Parent’s total awareness scores were high; however, individual domain scores indicate a moderate level of knowledge. Statistically significant relationship were observed between total awareness and gender, occupation, and level of educational level ((P=0.004, P=0.001, P=0.007, respectively). Another statistically significant relationship was noted between the history of urinary tract infections and awareness of disease prevention (P=0.009). CONCLUSION: In Saudi Arabia, parental knowledge about childhood urinary tract infections is moderate to high. However, future studies are needed to investigate gender, educational, and occupational variations in childhood UTI knowledge among parents in Saudi Arabia. Dove 2022-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9444035/ /pubmed/36072916 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S361313 Text en © 2022 Almatrafi et al. https://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/ (https://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 Almatrafi, Mohammed A Sindi, Lama Alshehri, Malak Sendi, Esraa Sindi, Ghufran Alzahrani, Ghaida Alwan, Joud Salawati, Emad Alwafi, Hassan Minshawi, Faisal Mosalli, Rafat Samannodi, Mohammed Parental Knowledge and Awareness of Childhood Urinary Tract Infections: A Cross Sectional Survey |
title | Parental Knowledge and Awareness of Childhood Urinary Tract Infections: A Cross Sectional Survey |
title_full | Parental Knowledge and Awareness of Childhood Urinary Tract Infections: A Cross Sectional Survey |
title_fullStr | Parental Knowledge and Awareness of Childhood Urinary Tract Infections: A Cross Sectional Survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Parental Knowledge and Awareness of Childhood Urinary Tract Infections: A Cross Sectional Survey |
title_short | Parental Knowledge and Awareness of Childhood Urinary Tract Infections: A Cross Sectional Survey |
title_sort | parental knowledge and awareness of childhood urinary tract infections: a cross sectional survey |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9444035/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36072916 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S361313 |
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