Prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome among medical students in hail university, Saudi Arabia

Background: despite the modern society and medical knowledge, irritable bowel syndrome has been common these days in medical students in Hail city

Objectives: irritable bowel syndrome [IBS] is a common gastrointestinal disease presenting with abdominal pain, bloating and change in bowel habit. This study aims to assess the prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome in medical students in Hail's university, Saudi Arabia

Methods: a cross-sectional study on the prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome was randomly distributed among men and women in Hail University in Hail city, of Saudi Arabia from January to February 2018 involving 133 medical student participants

Results: in 18% of the participants have been diagnosed with IBS and 28.5% fit Rome IV criteria for the diagnosis of IBS. Stress with a percentage of 69.2% and lack of exercise 75.9% being the highest risk factors of IBS

Conclusion: our result showed that huge number of medical students are suffering from inflammatory bowel syndrome

Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of parents towards immunization of children in Saudi Arabia, 2018

Background: Immunization has shown a major preventive aspects of infectious diseases, disability and death

Objectives: Assessing the Knowledge, attitude and practice [KAP] of Saudi parents in Saudi Arabia the immunization programs for children, Saudi Arabia [KSA], 2018

Methods: It is a cross sectional survey study that was carried among 600 different Saudi parents form different Cities of Saudi Arabia for 3 months from Nov 2017 to Jan 2018. The parents completed a questionnaire that contains 4 different parts about the demographics, knowledge, attitude and practice of parents toward immunization

Results: The included parents have shown a high level of awareness about vaccination regarding the preventive measures and importance of vaccination which resulted in positive attitudes and practice pattern among most of them. The overall KAP was good among most of the parents [87.2%]. The higher KAP level was significantly associated with female gender, higher educational degree and having higher number of children

Conclusion: Most of Saudi parents had good KAP toward immunization which was associated with female gender and higher educational degrees. However, educational programs are still needed to increase the parents' knowledge and practice especially among illiterate and less educated parents living in rural areas