scholarly journals Patients’ perception of the practice of anaesthesia in a Jordanian teaching hospital: A survey

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel M. Bataineh ◽  
Ibraheem Y. Qudaisat ◽  
Khaled El-Radaideh ◽  
Rawand A. Alzoubi ◽  
Mohammad I Abu-Shehab
Keyword(s):  
Elective Surgery ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Percentage Score ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Status ◽  
Equal Importance

Abstract Background and Aim: Despite big leaps of progress in its scope, the practice of anesthesia is still suffering from poor public image worldwide, especially in developing countries. Little research investigated the public awareness of anesthesia in the Middle East. This study aimed to examine the perception of the practice of anaesthesia among Jordanian patients.Methods: A total of 505 patients admitted for elective surgery were interviewed using a standard questionnaire. In addition to demographic data, questions covered patients' awareness of anaesthetists qualifications, importance, and roles inside and outside the operating theatre. Awareness was measured using the frequency of correct answers to survey questions plus a patient’s total knowledge percentage score of his/her correct answers. Effects of demographic variables on results were also investigated. Appropriate statistical tests were used to summarize and compare results. Results: Most patients identified anesthesia as a separate practice from surgery (86%). The anaesthetist was identified as a physician by only 37% of patients. Equal importance to both anaesthetists and surgeons was assumed by 71.5% of patents. Only 15% of patients showed good level of total knowledge of anaesthetist roles, while 51% scored poorly. highest awareness was of anaesthetist’s preoperative roles (65.1%). Age was the only demographic factor affecting studied awareness (P=0.009).Conclusion: Although the importance of anesthesia is well perceived among Jordanian patients, there is still a deficient perception of the details of the practice. Active efforts of communication, and patient education by anesthetists are needed for improvement of the public status of the specialty.

scholarly journals Patients’ perception of the practice of anaesthesia in a Jordanian teaching hospital: A survey.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel M. Bataineh ◽  
Ibraheem Y. Qudaisat ◽  
Khaled El-Radaideh ◽  
Rawand A. Alzoubi ◽  
Mohammad I Abu-Shehab
Keyword(s):  
Elective Surgery ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Survey Question ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Status ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Active Communication

Abstract Background and Aim: Despite big leaps of progress in its scope, the practice of anesthesia is still suffering from poor public image, especially in developing countries. Little research investigated the public awareness of anesthesia in the Middle East. This study aimed to examine the perception of the practice of anaesthesia among Jordanian patients.Methods:. A standard questionnaire with 29 questions was administered through personal interview to consenting patients. Questions tested patients’ correct knowledge of the identity of anesthetists, their roles and scope of their practice. Awareness was measured using the frequency of correct answers to each survey question. A total awareness score was calculated as the percentage ratio of the number of correct answers to the total number of questions. We classified this score into: Poor<50%. Moderate 50 – 75%, and Good >75% to reflect patient’s overall perception of anesthetists and their roles. Effects of demographic variables on results were also investigated. Appropriate statistical tests were used to summarize and compare results. A total of 513 patients admitted for elective surgery were sequentially approached for enrolment Results: Five hundred and five patients were enrolled. Most patients identified anesthesia as a separate practice from surgery (86%). The anaesthetist was identified as a physician by only 37% of patients. Equal importance to both anaesthetists and surgeons was assumed by 71.5% of patents. Only 15% of patients showed good level of total knowledge of anaesthetist roles, while 51% scored poorly. highest awareness was of anaesthetist’s preoperative roles (65.1%). Age was the only demographic factor affecting studied awareness (P=0.009).Conclusion: Although the importance of anesthetist is well perceived among Jordanian patients, there is still some ignorance in their knowledge of the details of anesthesia practice. Active communication efforts and patient education by anesthetists are needed to improve the public status of the specialty.

scholarly journals Patients’ perception of the practice of anaesthesia in a teaching hospital in Northern Jordan: a survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel M. Bataineh ◽  
Ibraheem Y. Qudaisat ◽  
Khaled El-Radaideh ◽  
Rawand A. Alzoubi ◽  
Mohammad I. Abu-Shehab
Keyword(s):  
Elective Surgery ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Survey Question ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Status ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Active Communication

Abstract Background and aim Despite big leaps of progress in its scope, the practice of anesthesia is still suffering from poor public image, especially in developing countries. Little research investigated the public awareness of anesthesia in the Middle East. This study aimed to examine the perception of the practice of anaesthesia among Jordanian patients. Methods A standard questionnaire with 29 questions was administered through personal interview to consenting patients. Questions tested patients’ correct knowledge of the identity of anesthetists, their roles and scope of their practice. Awareness was measured using the frequency of correct answers to each survey question. A total awareness score was calculated as the percentage ratio of the number of correct answers to the total number of questions. We classified this score into: Poor< 50%. Moderate 50–75%, and Good > 75% to reflect patient’s overall perception of anesthetists and their roles. Effects of demographic variables on results were also investigated. Appropriate statistical tests were used to summarize and compare results. A total of 513 patients admitted for elective surgery were sequentially approached for enrolment. Results Five hundred and five patients were enrolled. Most patients identified anesthesia as a separate practice from surgery (86%). The anaesthetist was identified as a physician by only 37% of patients. Equal importance to both anaesthetists and surgeons was assumed by 71.5% of patents. Only 15% of patients showed good level of total knowledge of anaesthetist roles, while 51% scored poorly. Highest awareness was of anaesthetist’s preoperative roles (65.1%). Age was the only demographic factor affecting studied awareness (P = 0.009). Conclusion Although the importance of anesthetist is well perceived among Jordanian patients, there is still some ignorance in their knowledge of the details of anesthesia practice. Active communication efforts and patient education by anesthetists are needed to improve the public status of the specialty.

scholarly journals Public awareness towards first aid management of epilepsy

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 2189
Author(s):  
Chaitra K. M. ◽  
Avinash Agrawal ◽  
Varshini P. ◽  
Anil H. ◽  
Sweta Athani
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Mass Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Fear And Anxiety ◽  
Source Of Information

Background: Determination of attitude and awareness towards epilepsy in general population. Despite successfully achievement of management of epilepsy in hospitals, the efforts to assess the awareness and mass education is very limited.Methods: Total 880 participants were required to answer a series of questionnaires related to demographic data, awareness, attitude towards epilepsy with details of their first aid management and their source of information for the same.Results: Concerning attitude, 14.65% would object having their children associated with epilepsy. 72.16% would object to marry or their children marrying an epileptic. 8.86% thought epilepsy as a form of insanity. Concerning knowledge, the 33% will seek others help as a first aid measure and 50% don’t have any source of information regarding first aid management.Conclusions: The results indicate considerable amount of social stigma still exist and alarming fact was even the educated people still think it as a social stigma and are biased. Awareness needs to be enhanced through various knowledge campaigns. Stress on proper first aid measure to a seizing person needs to be addressed to remove fear and anxiety among the public.

scholarly journals General public awareness of indications and complications of sleeve gastrectomy in Al'qassim region, Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah S. Alayaaf ◽  
Hamad S. Alsaeed ◽  
Abdullah N. AlSamani ◽  
Emad A. Alfadhel ◽  
Maha M. Aldhilan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Sleeve Gastrectomy ◽  
General Population ◽  
General Public ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Gastric Sleeve ◽  
Obese Person ◽  
Indications And Complications

Background: Obesity is risingly becoming a health care problem. After ineffective tries to lose weight with lifestyle-based conservative methods, the most effective obesity treatment will become bariatric surgery. Objective of this study aimed to assess the awareness of the general public about indications and complications of sleeve gastrectomy in Al'Qassim region, Saudi Arabia.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted among the general population living in Al'Qassim region, Saudi Arabia. A validated Arabic/English questionnaires were distributed among the targeted individual using an online platform. Questionnaires included demographic data, general knowledge about gastric sleeve and the knowledge toward the indication and complication of sleeve gastrectomy. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS version 26.Results: Nearly all participants were aware of sleeve gastrectomy (99.1%). The prevalence of participants who knew the indications and complications of sleeve gastrectomy were 60.9% and 72.2%, respectively. Furthermore, approximately three quarters (70.3%) were confident that the most common indication of the gastric sleeve was an adult with BMI >40 kg/m2. Statistical tests revealed that the knowledge toward the indication and complication of sleeve gastrectomy were more common among those who have heard about BMI and those who knew the BMI range of obese person (p<0.05).Conclusions: Although, general population awareness toward the indication and complication of sleeve gastrectomy was moderate, however, their knowledge about the BMI seems to be lacking. Having better knowledge about BMI likely influenced their awareness of the indications and complications of gastric sleeve.

Influence Of Demographic Variables On Choice Of Media

GIS Business ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 415-424
Author(s):  
Sugandha Shekhar Thakur ◽  
Dr Sachin Sinha ◽  
Dr Deepti Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Employment Status ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
The Public ◽  
Emerging Media ◽  
Economic Background ◽  
The Common ◽  
Media Habits ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Immense Potential

Media is considered to be the fourth pillar of democracy. Mass media in particular has immense potential to shape the attitudes of the common masses. With the passage of time, media is becoming an all-powerful engine of social change. It plays the role a catalyst in churning the minds of the masses. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the news items brought to the knowledge of the public pay a strong role in creating a mandate. People have varied choices when it comes to their media habits. They are greatly influenced by their socio-economic background and educational exposure. This paper aims to identify the influence of demographic variables like gender, age, education and employment status on the choice of media.  The paper also highlights the current and emerging media habits of people.

Perceived Influence of Students’ Demographic Variables on Their Access to Financial Aids in Public Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-50
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Olorunleke Eseyin
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Sample Size Determination ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Rivers State

The paper investigated the perceived influence of students’ demographic variables on their access to financial aids in public Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria. Six questions were formulated to guide the study and five hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. The design adopted for the study was an analytical survey. The population of the study included 78, 216 students (34,997 male and 43,219 female) in the three public Universities in Rivers State. The sample of the study covered 791 students (Male= 395 and Female= 396) selected through the random sampling technique while Taro Yamane method of sample size determination was used for determining the sample size. The instruments used for collecting responses from students were questionnaire and a ten items interview schedule. The research questions were answered using frequency, percentage and cumulative percentage. Findings of the study revealed that students’ demographic variables have an influence on their access to financial aids in public Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria. The implication of this is that the government’s expenditure on education will continue to increase in the absence of these alternative financial aids in the public Universities in Rivers State, Nigeria.

Assessing variability in surgical decision making among attending neurosurgeons at an academic center

2020 ◽  
Vol 132 (6) ◽  
pp. 1970-1976
Author(s):  
Ashwin G. Ramayya ◽  
H. Isaac Chen ◽  
Paul J. Marcotte ◽  
Steven Brem ◽  
Eric L. Zager ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spine Surgery ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Elective Surgery ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Neurosurgical Procedures ◽  
P Values ◽  
Surgical Interventions ◽  
Radiology Reports ◽  
Operative Notes ◽  
First Time

OBJECTIVEAlthough it is known that intersurgeon variability in offering elective surgery can have major consequences for patient morbidity and healthcare spending, data addressing variability within neurosurgery are scarce. The authors performed a prospective peer review study of randomly selected neurosurgery cases in order to assess the extent of consensus regarding the decision to offer elective surgery among attending neurosurgeons across one large academic institution.METHODSAll consecutive patients who had undergone standard inpatient surgical interventions of 1 of 4 types (craniotomy for tumor [CFT], nonacute redo CFT, first-time spine surgery with/without instrumentation, and nonacute redo spine surgery with/without instrumentation) during the period 2015–2017 were retrospectively enrolled (n = 9156 patient surgeries, n = 80 randomly selected individual cases, n = 20 index cases of each type randomly selected for review). The selected cases were scored by attending neurosurgeons using a need for surgery (NFS) score based on clinical data (patient demographics, preoperative notes, radiology reports, and operative notes; n = 616 independent case reviews). Attending neurosurgeon reviewers were blinded as to performing provider and surgical outcome. Aggregate NFS scores across various categories were measured. The authors employed a repeated-measures mixed ANOVA model with autoregressive variance structure to compute omnibus statistical tests across the various surgery types. Interrater reliability (IRR) was measured using Cohen’s kappa based on binary NFS scores.RESULTSOverall, the authors found that most of the neurosurgical procedures studied were rated as “indicated” by blinded attending neurosurgeons (mean NFS = 88.3, all p values < 0.001) with greater agreement among neurosurgeon raters than expected by chance (IRR = 81.78%, p = 0.016). Redo surgery had lower NFS scores and IRR scores than first-time surgery, both for craniotomy and spine surgery (ANOVA, all p values < 0.01). Spine surgeries with fusion had lower NFS scores than spine surgeries without fusion procedures (p < 0.01).CONCLUSIONSThere was general agreement among neurosurgeons in terms of indication for surgery; however, revision surgery of all types and spine surgery with fusion procedures had the lowest amount of decision consensus. These results should guide efforts aimed at reducing unnecessary variability in surgical practice with the goal of effective allocation of healthcare resources to advance the value paradigm in neurosurgery.

APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGIES OF INTERVIEW, TESTING, PRELIMINAR-ING IN SELECTION OF THE PERSONNEL OF THE ORGANIZATION

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-92
Author(s):  
E.V. Troshina
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Status ◽  
Market Relations ◽  
Selection Of

In modern conditions of market relations and a labour market the great value as the public status of the worker varies, character of its relations to work and conditions of sale of a labour is given to selection and hiring of shots especially.

Growing Inequality and Public Awareness of Inequality in the States

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Franko ◽  
Christopher Witko
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Perceptions Of Inequality ◽  
Public Opinion Polls ◽  
Opinion Polls

Here the authors present the variation that exists in income inequality across the states, and variation in public awareness or concern about income inequality as measured by public opinion polls. Though politicians may decide to tackle income inequality even in the absence of public concern about inequality, the authors argue that government responses are more likely when and where there is a growing awareness of, and concern about, inequality, which is confirmed in the analyses in this book. To examine this question in subsequent chapters, a novel measure of public awareness of rising state inequality is developed. Using these estimates, this chapter shows that the growth in the public concern about inequality responds in part to objective increases in inequality, but also that state political conditions, particularly mass partisanship, shape perceptions of inequality.

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