Awareness of radiation hazards in patients attending radiology departments

Alawad, Saud; Abujamea, Abdullah

doi:10.1007/s00411-021-00919-5

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“…Unfortunately, women were less informed of radiation risks and their impact on fertility. In addition, unlike our previous study, we found a difference in awareness of radiation risk and its correlation with cancer between men and women, with men exhibiting higher awareness than women [ 25 ]. Regarding the adverse effects of radiation on pregnancy, 85.7% of our respondents believed that radiation exposure during pregnancy increases the risk of fetal abnormalities, exceeding the 49.3% found in the Aldossari study [ 26 ].…”

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“…Regarding the possibility of radiation-induced infertility and fetal abnormalities, awareness was higher in the group with higher education levels. Similar to our previous study, we found that the perception of potential radiation-induced infertility was undoubtedly influenced by gender [ 25 ]. Unfortunately, women were less informed of radiation risks and their impact on fertility.…”

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“…Candidates attending the ED who underwent a CT scan and agreed to participate were provided with an electronic informational sheet explaining the purpose of the study. The questionnaire, based on one from a previous study by the author with the same objectives [ 25 ], was available in Arabic and English. It comprised 15 multiple-choice questions, including demographic information (sex, age, radiology history, and education level).…”

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Knowledge and Perception of Radiation Risk From Computed Tomography Scans Among Patients Attending an Emergency Department

Alsubaie,

Abujamea

2024

Cureus

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To evaluate the level of knowledge about radiation dose and possible risks related to computed tomography (CT) scans among patients visiting emergency departments (EDs), a survey was conducted over a two-month period. A total of 357 adult patients (44% men and 56% women) presenting for diagnostic imaging in the ED answered a survey consisting of 15 questions. The survey included questions about the participants' demographics and knowledge of radiation. Most of the respondents (58.5%) reported that the physician did not explain the potential risk of radiation before the procedure. In addition, more than half of the respondents (58.1%) expressed feeling anxious about the potential risk of radiation. Most respondents (84.9%) stated that the potential radiation risk did not affect their decision to proceed with the procedure. Overall, the findings highlight a lack of information about radiation and its potential risks provided to patients prior to the diagnostic procedure. Increasing awareness and understanding of the risks associated with these imaging modalities should be considered essential in modern communities. Efforts should be made to ensure that patients undergoing diagnostic imaging are aware of the radiation risks they may encounter.

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Knowledge and Perception of Radiation Risk From Computed Tomography Scans Among Patients Attending an Emergency Department

Alsubaie,

Abujamea

2024

Cureus

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“…According to the literature, it was observed that there are few research studies on improving the service quality of medical examination, and most studies focus on either specific problems or certain medical examination activities such as the performance of C-arm X-ray machines, service assessments of radiographers’ experiences relevant to patient safety incidents, etc. [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. However, few studies assess the service quality relevant to medical examination from the perspective of the entire process, i.e., from the time the patient makes an appointment for examination to receiving the final examination report.…”

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Identifying Root Causes of Important Service Failures across Medical Examination Processes with Integration of 4M1E, ITLV, GRA, DEMATEL and FMEA

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Medical examination plays an essential role in most medical treatment processes, and thus, the quality of service relevant to medical examination has great impact on patient satisfaction. The targeted hospital has long been faced with the problem that patient satisfaction of its medical examination department is below average. An assessment model, integrating 4M1E, ITLV, GRA, DEMATEL and FMEA, was developed in this study to identify the root causes of important service failures across medical examination processes, where (1) a cause-and-effect diagram was enhanced with 4M1E, identifying the list of failure modes relevant to service quality over the medical examination process with the 4M1E analysis framework, (2) FMEA experts were enabled to report their assessment results in their preferred ways by using the ITLV scheme, (3) causes of failure to failure modes with was figured out with DEMATEL, and (4) the evaluation results were improved by integrating GRA. Experimental results obtained by the proposed approach are compared with several benchmarks, and it was observed that (1) the results obtained by the proposed model are more suitable when FMEA experts prefer using different assessment languages versus other approaches; (2) the proposed model can figure out the key root causes according to their impact on overall failure modes.

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“…While the risks of radiation from medical imaging are generally low for adults, it is still important to understand the potential effects on the developing fetus [17,18]. Some previous studies [19][20][21][22][23] had noted this knowledge gap or very basic/reduced knowledge at the level of radiology, as well as low levels of communication between Healthcare Professionals and users. Topics such as identifying exams that use ionizing radiation (do not identify CT as an exam that uses ionizing radiation [19,20] or do not consider that the dose level associated with this exam is higher than that of radiography [19][20][21]), the risks associated with exposure to ionizing radiation [19,20], radiation doses, and radiological protection measures [21,22] prove to be points that represent the greatest difficulties of the studied samples.…”

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Understanding Patient Knowledge and Participation in Radiological Examinations: A Study on Women of Childbearing Age

Barros

Serranheira²

2022

SciMed. J.

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Over the years, patients have been called upon to play a more active role in their health processes. An increase in radiological examinations has also been observed, which leads to increased exposure of the most sensitive population (women of childbearing age) to X-rays and subsequent stochastic effects. Therefore, it is important to understand what knowledge this group has about radiology, if they intend to increase/know more about exposure to radiation, as well as to understand their participation in their radiological process. For a month, and with the help of three Portuguese associations, it was possible to disseminate the data collection instrument (questionnaire) adapted to the Portuguese reality on all its digital platforms. In this way, it was possible to obtain 502 responses from women between the ages of 18 and 57. Through the data obtained, it was noticed that participation and knowledge are reduced, but there is a willingness on the part of the sample to obtain more information and participate more in the entire radiological process. For greater participation of users in their radiological process (before the radiological examination, during the procedure, and after the procedure), it is important to provide tools that help to increase knowledge in this area. Stimulating interaction between health professionals in the field of radiology and users is equally important. Doi: 10.28991/SciMedJ-2022-04-03-03 Full Text: PDF

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Awareness of radiation hazards in patients attending radiology departments

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Knowledge and Perception of Radiation Risk From Computed Tomography Scans Among Patients Attending an Emergency Department

Knowledge and Perception of Radiation Risk From Computed Tomography Scans Among Patients Attending an Emergency Department

Identifying Root Causes of Important Service Failures across Medical Examination Processes with Integration of 4M1E, ITLV, GRA, DEMATEL and FMEA

Understanding Patient Knowledge and Participation in Radiological Examinations: A Study on Women of Childbearing Age

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