Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice towards family planning in Saudi Arabia, 2017

Background: Understanding the knowledge and conceptions of Saudi population regarding family planning methods is important for increasing the public awareness and maintaining the health of the women

Objectives: Evaluating the knowledge, attitude and practice [KAP] regarding the family planning methods in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [KSA]

Methods: A cross-sectional community questionnaire based study was conducted among 560 adult married subjects in Saudi Arabia, from March to July 2017

Results: The most of included subjects had college degree, less than 3 children and were employee. The majority of subjects had good knowledge regarding the meaning, types and uses of contraceptives which resulted in high attitude and good practice pattern as 65.4% of subjects had good KAP toward family planning

Conclusion: The use of contraceptive types was quietly high among the Saudi subjects and this could be due to that most of the subjects had high educational degree

Barriers that impede primary health care physicians from screening women for domestic violence at Makkah ALmukarramah City

Background: nowadays, violence against women represents a major public health concern despite the efforts to raise awareness about it at the local and the global level. Doctors have a crucial role to play in detecting violence against women but they are confronted to many barriers

Objective: to identify the barriers that impedes physicians from screening women for domestic violence

Subjects and methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted using a questionnaire to collect data from 62 primary health care physicians at Makah Almukarramah city

Results: more than a half of the physicians, working at primary health centers at Makkah and who participated in our survey, dealt with a case of women abused by her partner. Many participants agreed that there were barriers that impeded them from screening violence like insufficient training, feeling of embarrassment, shame of asking question about abuse and fear of revenge by the husband or relatives

Conclusion: implementing training program with intervention could help in managing and preventing violence against women