KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS PERSONS WITH DISABILITY

Objective: To assess the knowledge and attitude of health care professionals regarding persons with disabilities. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Children Hospital Complex Lahore, from Jun to Oct 2016. Patients and Methods: This study was designed to...

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Autores principales:	Kamila Iftikhar, Ahmad Alamgir, Shazia Maqbool, Waqar Rehan, Shajeel Akhtar
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Publicado:	Army Medical College Rawalpindi 2019
Materias:	knowledge health care professionals disabilities Medicine R Medicine (General) R5-920
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4a129156d528493dbd6ec6b383db280c2021-11-16T04:57:09ZKNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS PERSONS WITH DISABILITY0030-96482411-8842https://doaj.org/article/4a129156d528493dbd6ec6b383db280c2019-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.pafmj.org/index.php/PAFMJ/article/view/2513/2068https://doaj.org/toc/0030-9648https://doaj.org/toc/2411-8842Objective: To assess the knowledge and attitude of health care professionals regarding persons with disabilities. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Children Hospital Complex Lahore, from Jun to Oct 2016. Patients and Methods: This study was designed to assess outcomes of knowledge and attitude of health care professionals regarding persons with disabilities among 85 health care professionals including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals of different hospitals of Lahore. A SAQ-K questionnaire regarding knowledge and ATDP-O for attitude was administered to all of them in a private and confidential setting. Data was entered and analyzed in SPSS version 21.0. Mean ± SD was calculated for SAQ-K, ATDP-O and analyzed using independent t-test and ANOVA. A p-value of <0.05 was taken as statistically significant. Results: Among eighty five subjects 48.2% were males, 62.4% of respondents had 1-10 years of experience, 49.4% were doctors, 32.9% were from allied medical professional. Mean score for ATDP was 62.3176 SD ± 15.61 with minimum score of 26 and maximum score of 102 (p=0.000). Mean score for SAQ-K questionnaire was 19.623 SD ± 2.56 with minimum score of 14 and maximum score of 27 (p=0.000). Conclusion: Overall knowledge and attitude of health care professionals towards persons with disabilities using ATDP-O and SAQ-K was poor. DownloadsKamila IftikharAhmad AlamgirShazia MaqboolWaqar RehanShajeel AkhtarArmy Medical College Rawalpindiarticleknowledgehealth care professionalsdisabilitiesMedicineRMedicine (General)R5-920ENPakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, Vol 69, Iss 1, Pp 147-153 (2019)
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spellingShingle	knowledge health care professionals disabilities Medicine R Medicine (General) R5-920 Kamila Iftikhar Ahmad Alamgir Shazia Maqbool Waqar Rehan Shajeel Akhtar KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS PERSONS WITH DISABILITY
description	Objective: To assess the knowledge and attitude of health care professionals regarding persons with disabilities. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Children Hospital Complex Lahore, from Jun to Oct 2016. Patients and Methods: This study was designed to assess outcomes of knowledge and attitude of health care professionals regarding persons with disabilities among 85 health care professionals including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals of different hospitals of Lahore. A SAQ-K questionnaire regarding knowledge and ATDP-O for attitude was administered to all of them in a private and confidential setting. Data was entered and analyzed in SPSS version 21.0. Mean ± SD was calculated for SAQ-K, ATDP-O and analyzed using independent t-test and ANOVA. A p-value of <0.05 was taken as statistically significant. Results: Among eighty five subjects 48.2% were males, 62.4% of respondents had 1-10 years of experience, 49.4% were doctors, 32.9% were from allied medical professional. Mean score for ATDP was 62.3176 SD ± 15.61 with minimum score of 26 and maximum score of 102 (p=0.000). Mean score for SAQ-K questionnaire was 19.623 SD ± 2.56 with minimum score of 14 and maximum score of 27 (p=0.000). Conclusion: Overall knowledge and attitude of health care professionals towards persons with disabilities using ATDP-O and SAQ-K was poor. Downloads
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author	Kamila Iftikhar Ahmad Alamgir Shazia Maqbool Waqar Rehan Shajeel Akhtar
author_facet	Kamila Iftikhar Ahmad Alamgir Shazia Maqbool Waqar Rehan Shajeel Akhtar
author_sort	Kamila Iftikhar
title	KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS PERSONS WITH DISABILITY
title_short	KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS PERSONS WITH DISABILITY
title_full	KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS PERSONS WITH DISABILITY
title_fullStr	KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS PERSONS WITH DISABILITY
title_full_unstemmed	KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS PERSONS WITH DISABILITY
title_sort	knowledge and attitude of health care professionals towards persons with disability
publisher	Army Medical College Rawalpindi
publishDate	2019
url	https://doaj.org/article/4a129156d528493dbd6ec6b383db280c
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KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TOWARDS PERSONS WITH DISABILITY

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