ABSTRACT
We studied 300 randomly chosen diabetic patients to assess their behaviours in relation to management of their disease. The majority had very good compliance with regular periodic check-ups (97.0%), urine and blood screening for sugar (94.3% and 96.0% respectively), adherence to the prescribed medicines (78.3%) and foot-care practices (75.0%). However, 35.3% and 39.0% had poor compliance with regard to checking their blood pressure and weight monitoring. Among smokers, 30.2% stopped smoking and 42.2% decreased the amount smoked after being diagnosed with the disease. Dietary compliance was either satisfactory or very good for most patients.
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Diabetes Mellitus/prevention & control , Diabetes Mellitus/psychology , Patient Compliance/psychology , Self Care/methods , Self Care/psychology , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Cross-Sectional Studies , Educational Status , Egypt , Female , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Socioeconomic Factors , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
We aimed to: describe the level of knowledge of diabetic patients about the disease, show the relationship between demographic variables (age, sex and education) and level of knowledge and reveal the relationship between knowledge and management-related behaviour of diabetics. We found that a majority of diabetic patients (90.0%) had poor knowledge about the disease, 83.7% had poor knowledge about the complications associated with diabetes and 96.3% had poor awareness of how to control the disease. The poor level of knowledge that diabetics have about their disease suggests that health care providers need to be trained in the areas of information, education and communication.
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Diabetes Mellitus/prevention & control , Health Behavior , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Patient Education as Topic/standards , Self Care/methods , Age Factors , Cross-Sectional Studies , Diabetes Mellitus/psychology , Educational Status , Egypt , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Needs Assessment , Self Care/psychology , Sex Factors , Socioeconomic Factors , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
We aimed to: describe the level of knowledge of diabetic patients about the disease, show the relationship between demographic variables [age, sex and education] and level of knowledge and reveal the relationship between knowledge and management-related behaviour of diabetics. We found that a majority of diabetic patients [90.0%] had poor knowledge about the disease, 83.7% had poor knowledge about the complications associated with diabetes and 96.3% had poor awareness of how to control the disease. The poor level of knowledge that diabetics have about their disease suggests that health care providers need to be trained in the areas of information, education and communication
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Cross-Sectional Studies , Educational Status , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Needs Assessment , Patient Education as Topic , Self Care , Socioeconomic Factors , Diabetes MellitusABSTRACT
We studied 300 randomly chosen diabetic patients to assess their behaviours in relation to management of their disease. The majority had very good compliance with regular periodic check-ups [97.0%], urine and blood screening for sugar [94.3% and 96.0% respectively], adherence to the prescribed medicines [78.3%] and foot-care practices [75.0%]. However, 35.3% and 39.0% had poor compliance with regard to checking their blood pressure and weight monitoring. Among smokers, 30.2% stopped smoking and 42.2% decreased the amount smoked after being diagnosed with the disease. Dietary compliance was either satisfactory or very good for most patients
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Cross-Sectional Studies , Educational Status , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Patient Compliance , Surveys and Questionnaires , Self Care , Socioeconomic Factors , Diabetes MellitusABSTRACT
This study was conducted to determine the possible influence of job characteristics on job satisfaction of pediatric nurses. Eighty-nine pediatric nurses working in the pediatric units of the Maternity and Children Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia comprised the subject of the present study. A questionnaire of three parts was synthesized for this study. Part I is a multifaceted measure of job satisfaction (Smith et al., 1969) and known as job Descriptive Index. Part II is a job Characteristics Inventory (J.C.I) of 30 items developed by (Sims et al., 1976) to determine nurses perception of six characteristics, namely, variety, autonomy, task identity, feed back, dealing with others, and friendship opportunities. Part III comprised five demographic items. The study revealed that the overall degree of satisfaction of pediatric nurses was found to be relatively low with a mean percentage score of only 58.52%. Regarding the five job satisfaction subscales, nature of work (nursing of children) showed the highest mean percentage score. The study illustrates a positive strong correlation between job characteristics and job satisfaction with variety, task identity, and feedback being the statistically significant individual characteristics.
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Job Description , Job Satisfaction , Pediatric Nursing/statistics & numerical data , Adult , Child , Egypt , Humans , Regression Analysis , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
This study was undertaken to investigate the risk factors of ovarian cancer. A retrospective analysis was used in this study where 52 ovarian cancer cases and an equal number of a control group were obtained from the Western region of Saudi Arabia. Analysis of data showed that cases and controls did not significantly differ in any of the studied social factors, marital status, social class, and family history of cancer ovary. However, when reproductive factors were considered, the mean values of parity and number of abortions, but not age at first birth. Were found to differ significantly between cases and controls.
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Ovarian Neoplasms/epidemiology , Reproduction , Female , Humans , Retrospective Studies , Risk Factors , Saudi Arabia/epidemiology , Socioeconomic FactorsABSTRACT
This work was conducted to investigate the potential risk factors which may contribute to the development of ovarian cancer. A retrospective analysis was adopted where 52 ovarian cancer cases and an equal number of a control group were obtained from the Western region of Saudi Arabia. This case-control study confirms that oral contraceptive use protects against the onset of ovarian cancer and that the decrease in the risk of the development of this disease is also directly related to the duration of use. Additionally, the study revealed a positive association between both age at menopause and hot flashes and the relative risk of ovarian cancer. On the contrary, age at menarche and premenstrual tension have been shown in this study to have no role as a risk factor in the development of ovarian cancer.
PIP: A retrospective analysis was carried out on 52 ovarian cancer cases and an equal number of controls from the Western region of Saudi Arabia. Only 30.77% of cases as compared with 55.77% of the controls used oral contraceptives, but also only 31.25% of cases compared with 72.42% of controls were longterm users (or= 5 years). 26.92% of women had their menarche before age of 12, 63.46% between 12 and 14, and 9.62% at age 15 years or over. In the control group the corresponding percentages were 46.15%, 42.3%, and 11.54%, respectively. Of the 22 postmenopausal cases, 18.18% had their menopause before age 45, 45.46% between 45 and 49 and 36.36% at age 50 years or over. However, among the 16 postmenopausal controls, 56.25% had their menopause before the age of 45, 31.25% between 45 and 49, and only 12.51% at age 50 years or over. 48.48% of all cases experienced premenstrual tension compared with only 38.46% of controls. In addition, 72.73% of postmenopausal cases reported hot flashes vs. only 31.25% of postmenopausal controls. The estimated relative risk of oral contraceptive use, as compared with nonuse, was found to be 0.4 (60% protection); this was statistically significant by the Chi-square test. The relative risk of disease development decreased with the duration of oral contraceptive use: it was found to be 0.9 (0.3-2.5) for women reporting oral contraceptive use of less than 5 years and 0.2 (01-0.5) for 5 years or more. although the relative risk of women whose menarche occurred below 12 years as compared with 15 years or over was above unity (1.8) and the relative risk associated with having, as opposed to not having premenstrual tension, followed the same trend with a value of 1.5. Compared with women whose menopause between 45 and 49 years or earlier, the relative risk was 4.5 for menopause between 45 and 49 years and 9.0 for menopause at 50 years or above. Similarly, hot flashes were significantly more often encountered among cases than controls and the relative risk was 5.9 with a 95% confidence interval of 1.4-24.0.
