Physicians` Knowledge Regarding Nutritional Management in Children with Diarrhea: a Study in Kerman, Iran (I.R.)

Amini-Ranjbar, Seddiqe; Bavafa, Babak

doi:10.3923/pjn.2007.638.640

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“…This result is consistent with the results of the study which was conducted by Ranjbar and Bavafa, [27] who found that adequate level of knowledge is higher in physicians with less years of experience and also stated that older family physicians did not use WHO protocols because these protocols are new and recently introduced and they were not familiar with them according to their own statements, while young family physicians and recently graduated practitioners have learned these protocols and some of them are actually working with these protocols in health care centers.…”

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“…This may explained as refreshment of physicians knowledge by post graduate educational sessions. This result is consistent with the study of Akl, [29] in Egypt and Ranjbar and Bavafa [27] and which found no significant difference between physicians' knowledge and their qualification level.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…The results of the current study found significant relation between sex and level of knowledge of physicians, as adequate knowledge was higher among the female physicians (45.2%) than the male physicians (14.3%) (Table 6). The study of Ranjbar and Bavafa, [27] also found that the female physicians had the higher percentage of good level of knowledge with significant difference than male physicians, and this may be explained as the female physicians are more curious about geriatric care and they are more familiar with the customers than male physicians. Also the same result was found in the study of Arzu, [28] who found statistical significant relationship between the knowledge of physicians and their sex as female physicians had more information than male physicians.…”

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Study of Comprehensive Geriatric Care in Sharkia Governorate

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2017

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Background: In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of older persons all over the world.The number of people aged 60 years and over is expected to increase to 2 billion by the year 2050. One of the greatest challenges in geriatrics is the provision of optimal comprehensive geriatric care for older adults. Family physicians can improve the early identification of specific problems that are common in the elderly and also shift their focus from disease specific intervention to preventive care. Objectives: To improve the health of geriatrics through identifying health problems among the studied geriatric population in Sharkia governorate and determining the level of the family physicians' knowledge and practice of comprehensive geriatric care in Sharkia governorate. Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted, it was conducted in 9 accredited family health centers in Sharkia governorate for one year. The family health centers were selected by stratified random sampling technique from health centers of Sharkia governorate. The sample included 630 elderly person and 52 family physicians. Results: The results of this study declared that the most prevalent selfreported morbidities were, diabetes mellitus (36.7%), hypertension (33.5%) and respiratory disease (20.2%). The results also showed that (76.9%) of the studied family physicians have adequate knowledge about physical problems of the elderly population and (25%) of the studied family physicians have adequate performance in taking personal history, abdominal examination and counseling of the elderly population. Conclusion: The more prevalent self-reported morbidities among the studied geriatric population were, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and respiratory diseases. Most of family physicians had inadequate level of performance as regard physicians performance during dealing with geriatric patients. Recommendations:The study highlighted the need to promote geriatric health care services, regular health checkup and social support by people. Continuous training of family physicians specially in comprehensive geriatric care for providing high quality of care for elderly population.

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“…These findings corroborate the available evidence regarding the component questions used to estimate the knowledge in these two domains. Surveys conducted previously in Iran, Peru, Nigeria and USA found that participating physicians were lacking in knowledge regarding the dilution, preparation, constituents, indication and mode of action of ORS in diarrhoea cases [22–26]. According to WHO estimates, globally less than 60% of children received ORS for the treatment of diarrhoea [27].…”

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Diarrhoea-related knowledge and practice of physicians in urban slums of Kolkata, India

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Diarrhoeal management practices are unsatisfactory in India especially in the slum areas. Dearth of information regarding physicians' diarrhoea-related knowledge and practice in India necessitated this cross-sectional study of allopathic practitioners in the slums of Kolkata, to assess the distribution and interrelationship between physicians' characteristics, knowledge and practice regarding diarrhoea. A total of 264 randomly selected consenting practitioners were interviewed using a field-tested questionnaire. Nineteen percent had good overall knowledge, 49% and 80% prescribed antibiotics to diarrhoea and cholera patients, respectively, and 55% advised stool examination for every case. Qualified and Government physicians had better knowledge regarding diarrhoea [MBBS: odds ratio (OR) 5·96, P < 0·001; postgraduates: OR 9·33, P < 0·001; Government physicians: OR 11·49, P < 0·0001] and were less likely to prescribe antibiotics for all diarrhoea cases (MBBS: OR 0·30, P = 0·002; postgraduates: OR 0·20, P < 0·001; Government physicians OR 0·24, P < 0·029). Better knowledge was associated with a lower likelihood of prescribing antibiotics for diarrhoea (OR 0·72, P < 0·001), cholera (OR 0·78, P = 0·027) and investigative procedure (OR 0·85, P = 0·028). In the slums of Kolkata, diarrhoea-related knowledge and practice were poor with the exception of qualified physicians, hence an improvement in the knowledge of pharmacists and unqualified practitioners is necessary for the overall improvement of diarrhoeal management in these slums.

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