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Syrian medical students’ acceptance of peer physical examination and its associating factors: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to evaluate the acceptance of Peer Physical Examination (PPE) in middle Eastern society with its associate factors, and PPE acceptance during Covid-19 pandemic. The acceptance of PPE is considered high in multiple studies carried out in the west, but there were nearly no...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9795451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36578027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03985-5 |
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author | Soqia, Jameel Shamaa, Mohamad Ashraf Alhomsi, Dima Yakoub-Agha, Laila Alameer, Mhd Basheer Alhomsi, Rawan Hakok, Mohmad Nour Khalil, Rim Zaitouna, Mazen |
author_facet | Soqia, Jameel Shamaa, Mohamad Ashraf Alhomsi, Dima Yakoub-Agha, Laila Alameer, Mhd Basheer Alhomsi, Rawan Hakok, Mohmad Nour Khalil, Rim Zaitouna, Mazen |
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description | BACKGROUND: This study aimed to evaluate the acceptance of Peer Physical Examination (PPE) in middle Eastern society with its associate factors, and PPE acceptance during Covid-19 pandemic. The acceptance of PPE is considered high in multiple studies carried out in the west, but there were nearly no studies investigating the acceptance of PPE in the middle east or low-income countries. METHODS: A questionnaire was shared through social media with students with focus on clinical-year students. A total number of 657 medical students were collected with a 74.5% response rate. The questionnaire gathered demographic information and recorded previous experience of PPE. A 5-point-likert scale was used to assess acceptance of PPE, factors affecting it, and the influence of COVID-19 pandemic. It also considered body’s areas students would accept to be examined. Associations between participants’ demographic and other details were tested using independent-samples T Test and other tests, and a p-value of < 0.05 was considered significant. RESULTS: Eighty percent of medical students accepted PPE, while 3% did not, and 17% were neutral. Males had statistically significantly higher acceptance rates of PPE (M = 3.94 out of 5). Also, females had lower acceptance of being examined by other gender than males but did not mind examining other gender. Furthermore, the groin area (thigh) was the most rejected area for examination (20% only accept it), followed by the breast (23%). There was no statistically significant difference between different Universities groups or between different academic performance groups, finally there was statistically significant effect of religion and society on acceptance of PPE and religion has affected females more than males (p- value = 0.002). 70.8% of students supported PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, while 6.8% did not, and 22.4% were neutral. There was not a significant difference in acceptance and supporting of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic between males and females. CONCLUSIONS: With an 80% acceptance rate, PPE represents an effective alternative to the absent life models in Syrian universities. The application of PPE is less likely to go without difficulties, but authors suggest the presence of a supervisor and single-gender groups with friends paired together if possible. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-022-03985-5. |
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spelling | pubmed-97954512022-12-28 Syrian medical students’ acceptance of peer physical examination and its associating factors: a cross-sectional study Soqia, Jameel Shamaa, Mohamad Ashraf Alhomsi, Dima Yakoub-Agha, Laila Alameer, Mhd Basheer Alhomsi, Rawan Hakok, Mohmad Nour Khalil, Rim Zaitouna, Mazen BMC Med Educ Research BACKGROUND: This study aimed to evaluate the acceptance of Peer Physical Examination (PPE) in middle Eastern society with its associate factors, and PPE acceptance during Covid-19 pandemic. The acceptance of PPE is considered high in multiple studies carried out in the west, but there were nearly no studies investigating the acceptance of PPE in the middle east or low-income countries. METHODS: A questionnaire was shared through social media with students with focus on clinical-year students. A total number of 657 medical students were collected with a 74.5% response rate. The questionnaire gathered demographic information and recorded previous experience of PPE. A 5-point-likert scale was used to assess acceptance of PPE, factors affecting it, and the influence of COVID-19 pandemic. It also considered body’s areas students would accept to be examined. Associations between participants’ demographic and other details were tested using independent-samples T Test and other tests, and a p-value of < 0.05 was considered significant. RESULTS: Eighty percent of medical students accepted PPE, while 3% did not, and 17% were neutral. Males had statistically significantly higher acceptance rates of PPE (M = 3.94 out of 5). Also, females had lower acceptance of being examined by other gender than males but did not mind examining other gender. Furthermore, the groin area (thigh) was the most rejected area for examination (20% only accept it), followed by the breast (23%). There was no statistically significant difference between different Universities groups or between different academic performance groups, finally there was statistically significant effect of religion and society on acceptance of PPE and religion has affected females more than males (p- value = 0.002). 70.8% of students supported PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, while 6.8% did not, and 22.4% were neutral. There was not a significant difference in acceptance and supporting of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic between males and females. CONCLUSIONS: With an 80% acceptance rate, PPE represents an effective alternative to the absent life models in Syrian universities. The application of PPE is less likely to go without difficulties, but authors suggest the presence of a supervisor and single-gender groups with friends paired together if possible. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-022-03985-5. BioMed Central 2022-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9795451/ /pubmed/36578027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03985-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://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. |
spellingShingle | Research Soqia, Jameel Shamaa, Mohamad Ashraf Alhomsi, Dima Yakoub-Agha, Laila Alameer, Mhd Basheer Alhomsi, Rawan Hakok, Mohmad Nour Khalil, Rim Zaitouna, Mazen Syrian medical students’ acceptance of peer physical examination and its associating factors: a cross-sectional study |
title | Syrian medical students’ acceptance of peer physical examination and its associating factors: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Syrian medical students’ acceptance of peer physical examination and its associating factors: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Syrian medical students’ acceptance of peer physical examination and its associating factors: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Syrian medical students’ acceptance of peer physical examination and its associating factors: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Syrian medical students’ acceptance of peer physical examination and its associating factors: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | syrian medical students’ acceptance of peer physical examination and its associating factors: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9795451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36578027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03985-5 |
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