Volume 24, Issue 102, March - April, 2020

Relationship between distance and transportation with attendance of dental appointments in MNGHA and KSAU-HS

Faisal Alzeghaibi^1,3, Abdulaziz Jammah^1,3♦, Abdulmohsen Bin Hassan^1,3, Ahmad Alanazi^1,3, Ali Alrezgi^1,3, Khalid Alotaibi^1,3, Khalid Alderaa^1,3, Muhannad Alotaibi^1,3, Waleed Alkhulaifi^1,3, Yasser Aloufi^1,3, Ziyad Alghmadi^1,3, Abeer Alrumayyan^2,3

¹College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
²Restorative Division, King Abdulaziz Dental Center, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
³King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Abdulaziz Jammah, Dental intern, College of Dentistry King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for health sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Email: abdulaziz.jammah@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to know is distance to the KSAU-HS dental clinic and MNG-HA dental clinics a barrier to attend follow-up appointments. Also, to see what the other barriers are to affect the attendance of the patients like cost of transportation and the time of the appointments, morning or afternoon. The sample size was 550 participants in the KSAU-HS and MNG-HA waiting areas, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A questionnaire made with the course instructors trying to fulfill the aim and to see the other barriers. Albarakati et al. found that women are more affected to miss appointment, and the holy Ramadan is a major effect of not attending, due to fasting. The main variable is do you think that the availability of transportation will affect the attendance of follow-up appointments. Using SPSS, we do most of the analysis with those who answer the main variable with "No". Surprisingly, the patients whom lived in areas not that near are better to attend than those who in nearby areas with a p-value of 0.035. And the cost of transportation is not a barrier to attend follow-up appointments. Recommendations to the next researchers to include more question about barriers of attending appointments, to shorten the questionnaire, and lastly to reduce “Neutral” options as it is the first choice for the patients to consider. The importance of attending follow-up appointments is not a part of our culture which is getting less day by day.

Keywords: dental clinic, fasting, transportation, questionnaire

Medical Science, 2020, 24(102), 765-770

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