The Degree of Disease Knowledge in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: A Multi-center Prospective Study in Korea

Abstract

Background/Aims Patient education has been shown to be beneficial in several diseases. To properly educate patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), it is necessary to understand how much they already know about their disease. However, no study has examined the degree of disease knowledge in Korean patients with GERD. Therefore, we conducted this study to assess the degree of knowledge in such patients. Methods This multicenter prospective study was conducted from January 2014 to January 2015. A total of 746 patients (mean age, 52 years; 57.6% female) were enrolled from 7 hospitals in Korea. Inclusion criteria were diagnosis of GERD and ability to properly complete a survey. Degree of disease knowledge was assessed using the translated, validated Korean Urnes questionnaire, which consists of 22 items related to GERD. Results Mean percentage of correct answers was 46.3% and mean GERD knowledge score was 9.6. Degree of knowledge (mean percentage of correct answers) regarding etiology, prognosis, and treatment of GERD were 49.5%, 36.7%, and 37.5%, respectively. Degree of disease knowledge differed significantly according to age ( P < 0.001), education ( P < 0.001), income ( P = 0.028), and occupation ( P < 0.001). In multivariate analysis, using multiple logistic regression, the higher knowledge score group tended to have higher education and professional occupation. Conclusions The surveyed Korean patients had relatively low disease knowledge, suggesting that a GERD educational program may be beneficial in Korea. Formulation of a program is underway.

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“…The age in both groups ranged between 28 and 64 years, with mean age 42±6.7 Which is the age with highest prevalence of GERD as reported by [5] .In the same way, the current study showed that more around half of samples were female obese in both groups, this result may be confirmed positive relationship between GERD and obesity, which is most common among women especially in Egypt where the prevalence of unhealthy nutritional patterns help increase the overweight, This finding is consistent with many relevant studies [5, [22][23], that confirm the firm relationship between obesity and GERD while, unfortunately there is a scarcity of Egyptian studies that dealt with this relationship.…”

“…In South Korea, the recent prevalence of GERD was 7.1%. [5]. unfortunately, in Egypt, there are no published statistics on the incidence of GERD, but it is noticeable increase the number of GERD patients, who are coming to endoscopy units at different hospitals.…”

“…These patients need educational instructions to be able to self-management of their illness. [5]. Therefore, the GERD patients' education should be concerned with encouraging self-dependence and confidence among them to enable them to carry out their self-care tasks.…”

Assessment of the Knowledge of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease among the Saudi Population of Altaif City

“…The manifestations that were less identified included globus sensation, dysphagia and odynophagia (58.9%, 57.4% and 50 % respectively). Du Jeong et al (8) also found that only 50% of his sample identified dysphagia as a symptom of GERD.…”

“…Research concerning the level of health knowledge in the general public is limited; few studies evaluated patient knowledge and education of GERD. Du Jeong and his coworkers (8) conducted a study to assess the degree of knowledge in Korean patients with GERD. Urnes and his colleagues (9) investigated the effects of an educational program for Norwegian patients with GERD on disease knowledge.…”