Assessment of physicians' knowledge to combat obesity in Bangladesh
| Autor: | Subrata K. Biswas, Suman Kumar Saha, Ponkaj Kanti Datta, Nondita Mudi, Sonchita R. Mudi, Mohammad Ali, M Iqbal Arslan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Attitude of Health Personnel Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Overweight Management of obesity Body Mass Index 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physicians Surveys and Questionnaires Internal Medicine Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Obesity Practice Patterns Physicians' Government business.industry Body fatness General Medicine medicine.disease Prognosis Clinical Practice Family medicine Practice Guidelines as Topic Asian population Clinical Competence medicine.symptom Positive attitude business |
| Zdroj: | Diabetesmetabolic syndrome. 13(4) |
| ISSN: | 1878-0334 |
| Popis: | Objective Physicians need to play a proactive role to combat obesity and its associated comorbidities. The present survey was conducted to assess the awareness, knowledge, practice and attitude of the physicians in Bangladesh in the prevention and management of obesity. Methods Three hundred physicians were randomly selected from a medical university, a government medical college and a private medical college in Bangladesh to be included in this survey. All of them voluntarily participated in the survey upon the assurance of anonymity. All the selected physicians were provided with a questionnaire consisting of nine questions for assessing their awareness, knowledge, practice and attitude regarding obesity. Results Out of 300 participants, about 77% claimed that they know their own BMI and BMI cut-off points for overweight and obesity. But 38% physicians were unable to write the cut-off points correctly. Near about 50% physicians claimed that they know the BMI cut-off points for Asian population. However, only 7% were able to correctly write the BMI cut-off points for Asian population. About 47% physicians agreed that they do not calculate BMI or evaluate other measures of body fatness during clinical practice. However, 99% of the physicians considered that measuring BMI during consultation or clinical practice is important. Conclusions It may be concluded that Bangladeshi physicians’ have positive attitude for managing obesity but their practice is grossly inadequate. Most importantly, knowledge and awareness of the physicians about diagnosis of obesity is very poor. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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