Urological knowledge among primary health care physicians in Saudi Arabia

Nassir, Anmar; Baazeem, Abdulaziz; Saada, Hesham; Elkoushy, Mohamed A; Badr, Hattan; Bahuwyrith., Mawaddah; Melebari, Haitham A.; Nasser, Jomanah; Azhar, Raed A.

doi:10.15537/smj.2019.5.24080

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“…Several studies have already addressed the general public's poor awareness of LUTS' importance, as well as the awareness of GPs. [19][20][21]23,32,34 To our knowledge, we are the first to conduct a study on the importance of an educational interview with a GP on the recognition of LUTS, and the first to look for LUTS in the general population who were unaware of their condition.…”

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“…There are several studies on the connection of primary health care providers' level of education on LUTS and their ability to recognize LUTS in patients, as well as on the connection of patients' education on LUTS rehabilitation and their recovery rate. [19][20][21] Certain studies have assessed the connection between a person's educational level and the ability to evaluate the severity of LUTS using questionnaires in rural Africa, 22 or seeking medical help regarding incontinence in women. 23 Others have noted patients' educational level but have not linked it to the ability to assess the presence or severity of LUTS.…”

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Family Physician’s Educational Interview with Patients Helps in Early Recognition of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

Brizić¹,

Mozetič²

2021

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Purpose Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) can have an etiology outside the lower urinary tract (LUT) and are therefore an important diagnostic indicator for assessing the overall health of a person. However, LUTS is still mainly neglected by primary health care providers as well as by patients. In this study, we assessed the importance of an educational interview (EI) conducted by a GP on the patients’ ability to recognize LUTS. We also investigated other factors that affect the recognition of LUTS: subjects’ personal educational level, number of LUT symptoms and their bothersome level on a scale 0–10. Patients and Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted in Croatia (2018–2020) by interviewing 499 subjects. We compared recognized LUT symptoms before and after the EI and determined whether their number, their bothersome level, or the subjects’ personal educational level were associated with LUTS recognition. Results EI significantly improved the ability to recognize LUTS (p=0.001). The number of LUT symptoms and bothersome level in subjects before EI was much greater than the number in subjects after EI (p<0.0001, mean>4 and p<0.0001, median>8, respectively). Subjects with higher educational level recognized LUTS with fewer symptoms after the EI (p<0.01), but no difference was observed among subjects who recognized LUTS before the EI. Conclusion For subjects to recognize LUTS, their condition had to be severe – more than 4 symptoms and bothersome level >8/10. Personal educational level had little impact on LUTS recognition. However, an EI proved to be an excellent tool for raising awareness about LUTS and its early recognition.

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Family Physician’s Educational Interview with Patients Helps in Early Recognition of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

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Mozetič²

2021

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“…Now, there is the need to take care of health in order to keep disease away from the public quite effectively. In this study, the data was gathered from 200 people in order to assess how physiotherapists help the public to keep their health in the proper order [27]. They indicated that there is a positive correlation between the physiotherapists and primary healthcare and significantly improve the way of living of the people and contribute to managing all the health-related issues [28].…”

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“…The mixed research approach is the most suitable research approach for this research work because the data collection process of this study area lies in the category of qualitative research approach, and the data collection proves are lies in the category of the quantitative research approach. The different econometrics techniques are used for the analysis of the data because the collected data are in the qualitative form, and for the purpose of converting the qualitative data into a quantitative form, the data coding and the data cleaning are used for the analysis of the data [27].…”

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Physiotherapist as Health Promotion Practitioners in Primary Health Care (PHC) in Riyadh City

Alsalem¹,

Almuhaid²

2023

ACMR

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Variables Abbreviation1. Physiotherapists have no role to play in the health promotion in Riyadh City (PRPHR). 2. Physiotherapists working within district health system should include health promotion in their services in Riyadh City (PHPSR). 3. Physiotherapists should responsible for the development of the health promotion polices in Riyadh City (PSRPR). 4. There is a need for physiotherapists to shift from a biomedical approach to a model ensuring health promotion in Riyadh City (PBMHPRC). 5. The physiotherapists is responsible for the planning of a health promotion polices in Riyadh City (PRPHRC). 6. Physiotherapists as health promotion practitioners are responsible for evaluation and implementation of health promotion in Riyadh City (PHPREHP). 7. Would physiotherapists educate people on ergonomics in community where you practice in Riyadh City (WPECPR). 8. Would Physiotherapists play a part in arrive alive campaign of the government in Riyadh City (WPACGR). 9. Would Physiotherapists educate all the clients on healthy diet and need for exercise in Riyadh City (WPCHER). 10. Would physiotherapists participate in an advocacy activity to electrify households to reduce burns caused by the use of coal and paraffin in Riyadh City (WPEHBUR). 11. Would physiotherapists get involved in the efforts to improve the physical exercise for school children to reduce the prevalence of obesity and related diseases in Riyadh City (WPPODR). ResultsThe IBM SPSS and the Microsoft Excel have been used for the analysis of the data with the help of factor analysis and the principal components analysis, along with regression analysis and the correlation analysis.The practical implication of the study is that this work is contributed in the available literature by clearing the role of physiotherapist as health promotion practitioners. The findings are help to develop the effective polices in primary healthcare sector as far as the role of physiotherapist as the health promotion is concerned and it also helps the physiotherapy community to be part of Primary Health Care. ConclusionThe originality of this research work is that it is one of the fewest and one of the earliest research projects works that conduct to clear the role of health promotion in the primary health care. The health promotion is concerning physiotherapy community as part of primary health care.

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Urologists’ and general practitioners’ knowledge, beliefs and practice relevant for opportunistic prostate cancer screening: a PRISMA-compliant systematic review

Estevan-Ortega,

de la Encarnación Castellano,

Mendiola-López

et al. 2024

Front. Med.

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BackgroundRecent guidelines on opportunistic prostate cancer screening conclude that the decision to screen with prostate-specific antigen should be made by each patient individually together with the clinician. However, there is evidence of a lack of clinicians’ awareness of prostate cancer screening. This study sought to assess the recent evidence of clinicians’ knowledge, beliefs, and practice regarding opportunistic prostate cancer screening comparing urologists and generals practitioners.MethodsA systematic search was conducted in 3 online databases: MEDLINE, Web of Science and EMBASE (from January 1, 2015, to January 9th, 2023). Studies that explored clinicians’ knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding opportunistic prostate cancer screening were included. Studies were assessed for quality reporting according to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational studies in Epidemiology guidelines.ResultsA total of 14 studies met the inclusion criteria: ten studies included primary care health professionals, three studies included urologists, and one study included both. Studies involving general practitioners showed a generally low level of awareness of the recommended uses of the test, and urologists showed a greater knowledge of clinical practice guidelines. General practitioners’ opinion of prostate-specific antigen was generally unfavourable in contrast to urologists’ who were more likely to be proactive in ordering the test. Less than half of the included studies evaluated shared-decision making in practice and 50% of clinicians surveyed implemented it.ConclusionGeneral practitioners had less knowledge of prostate cancer risk factors and clinical practice guidelines in the use of PSA than urologists, which makes them less likely to follow available recommendations. A need to carry out education interventions with trusted resources based on the available evidence and the current guidelines was identified.

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Urological knowledge among primary health care physicians in Saudi Arabia

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Family Physician’s Educational Interview with Patients Helps in Early Recognition of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

Family Physician’s Educational Interview with Patients Helps in Early Recognition of Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

Physiotherapist as Health Promotion Practitioners in Primary Health Care (PHC) in Riyadh City

Urologists’ and general practitioners’ knowledge, beliefs and practice relevant for opportunistic prostate cancer screening: a PRISMA-compliant systematic review

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