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Autism is a known developmental disorder that is prevalent across the world. Saudi Arabia has largely beendisadvantaged with respect to evidence-based research on autism. The presence of limited research and studieson autism in Saudi Arabia has an impact on how pediatricians undertake their treatment interventions on childrenwith autism. This study assesses the awareness levels of Saudi pediatricians with regards to knowledge andattitudes towards autism among children. The degree of knowledge and attitudes displayed by the respondentshave a direct correlation with the level of care and treatment for autism. This study is thus a baseline case whichcan be used to inform future treatment interventions for autism. The study showed that male children were morelikely to be in the risk of being affected by autism which according to the analysis obtained from the chi squaregender was not a significance of likeliness of a child being affected by autism. Correlation was used to determinethe strength of the relationship between lack of eye contact as a result of autism causing communication disorder,a correlation of -0.132 which implied a weak negative relationship between the two variables. From the chisquare, a p value of 0.808 was obtained which indicated that there was insufficient statistical significance to theclaim that there was a difference between gender and long-life condition of autism.
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Background: despite the modern life and people knowledge about certain diseases, the prevalence of cholecystectomy procedures have been increased in the recent years in Saudi Arabia
Objectives: prevalence of cholecystectomy is almost known in the modern countries. This study was done to know the prevalence cholecystectomy procedures in Saudi Arabia
Methods: a cross-sectional study on knowing the prevalence of cholecystectomy procedures in Saudi Arabia was distributed among men and women from January to February 2018 on 523 participants on many different social media platforms
Results: 6.5% of the participants had done cholecystectomy procedure. 32.4% of the participants who had the procedure suffered from post procedure complications. Regarding risk factors that may lead to cholecystectomy procedure, 45.5% of the participants had a positive family history of cholecystectomy, 44.5% of the participants were obese, 27.6% were smoker, 25.8% ate high fat diet, 17.5% suffered from chronic constipation, 12.6% suffered from chronic cough, 8.3% had major surgeries, 7.7% were diabetic, 5.2% had been admitted to ICU, 4.6% suffered from urinary retention, 2.1% had major trauma, 1.25% had been diagnosed with atherosclerosis disease and 37.7% were having no risk factors. 61.4% of the participants thought that cholecystectomy is the definite treatment of cholecystitis
Conclusion: at the end of this study, we found out that cholecystectomy procedure is increased among people in Saudi Arabia and multiple people are suffering from many risk factors that may lead to cholecystitis and then cholecystectomy procedure eventually