HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS’ KNOWLEDGE ON HOME HEALTH CARE IN AL-KHOBAR AND AL-DAMMAM
| Autor: | Al-Hazmi, Ali M., Al-Kurashi, Nabil Y. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Family & Community Medicine |
| ISSN: | 2229-340X 1319-1683 |
| Popis: | Objective: To survey self-reported knowledge of home health care (HHC) services of health care professionals in Al-Khobar and Al-Dammam. Methods: A specially developed questionnaire was used to conduct a cross-sectional study to find out how knowledgeable 11 hospital administrators, 16 PHHC medical directors, and 637 health care team were of HHC services. Results: When asked whether they knew of HHC services, 90.9% of medical directors, 62.5% of primary health care center directors, 83.1% of physicians, 92.9% of nurses, 98.6% of physiotherapists, 95.9% of social workers, and 57.6% of the health team members replied that they did, although this knowledge was very scanty. Health care workers’ source of information on HHC services was hospital work (65.0%) while administrators’ sources were journals (65.0%). Only 11.1% of the administrators and 30.3% of the health team members indicated having had HHC training from university, and 3.7% of administrators and 20.4% of health team members indicated having attended a HHC lecture or symposium. The only finding with significant difference of responses (p |
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