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Background: Despite the modern life and the availability of great facilities, patients are not satisfied with the health care offered in the primary health care center in Saudi Arabia. Common complains that bring patients to the primary health care center are usually hypertension, headaches or back pain but there are others that are unknown and common like abdominal pain
Objectives: This study was done to explore the overall patient's satisfaction of the primary health care in Saudi Arabia and the common complains that bring patients to the primary health centre
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out during the period from January to April 2018 on 864 participants chosen from many different social media platforms to investigate the overall patient's satisfaction of the primary health care in Saudi Arabia and the common complains that bring patients to the primary health centre
Results: 48.1% of the participants had visited the primary health care center at a certain point of time, 33.6% of the participants went to the primary health center first before going to the hospital, 43.7% of the participants received a professional health care whenever they enrolled to the primary health care centers, 51.9% of the participants usually found the prescribed medications at the primary health care center and 30% of the participants claimed abdominal when they visited the primary health care center. Regarding patient's satisfaction, 18.8% of the participants rate the primary health care center 5 out of 10. Finally, 90.6% of the participants thought that the ministry of health should pay more attentions to the primary health care centers
Conclusion: overall patient's satisfaction about the primary health care center in Saudi Arabia was as great as we could expect. The main complain that brings participants to the primary health care centers was abdominal pain
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Background: despite the modern life and the availability of knowledge, the prevalence of people who have had appendectomy procedures is increasing these days in Saudi Arabia in the previous years for multiple different risk factors. Knowing the prevalence of people who underwent appendectomy procedure in Saudi Arabia and comparing it with other countries could provide useful information about these risk factors and how to avoid them
Objectives: This study was done to collect information upon and investigate the prevalence people under went appendectomy procedure in Saudi Arabia
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out on 864 participants from different social media platforms to investigate the prevalence of people who have had an appendectomy procedure in Saudi Arabia from February to April 2018
Results: 41.1% of the participants knew some information about appendicitis, 8.1% of the participants have had an appendectomy procedure, 33.3% of the participants who had an appendectomy procedure suffered from post-surgery complication, 29.7% of the participants suffered from gastrointestinal diseases. Recently, 41.4% of the participants do not eat food rich in fibers and 37.7% of the participants have a positive family history of appendectomy
Conclusion: At the end of this study, there were an increased number of people who have had an appendectomy procedure in Saudi Arabia
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Background: despite the modern society and available healthy food, iron deficiency anemia is common in Saudi Arabia woman. Iron deficiency anemia is very common in women due to many risk factors like heavy menses and eating food that is not rich in iron. Knowing the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia and its associated risk factors in Saudi Arabia can provide a useful knowledge in avoiding these risk factors and improving the overall health
Objectives: Iron deficiency anemia is increasingly common worldwide. This study aims to assess the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia and its associated risk factors in women in Saudi Arabia
Methods: Across-sectional study on the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia was randomly carried out among women [1638 participants] in different social media platforms of Saudi Arabia during the period from February to April 2018
Results: In 43.5% of the participants have been suffering from iron deficiency anemia, only 10.1% had a blood transfusion as a consequence of the anemia, 42.6% have sought medical help, 32.8% had heavy menses, 48.5% had a positive family history of iron deficiency anemia, only 15.4% had hypothyroidism disease, 57.2% don't eat iron rich food and only 7.9% were pregnant
Conclusion: Our result showed that huge number of the participants was suffering from iron deficiency anemia in Saudi Arabia