Volume 25, Issue 113, July 2021

Knowledge, attitude and practice of bariatric surgeries among Saudi population: A cross sectional survey

Manal Ibrahim Hanafi Mahmoud^1,2, Mohammad Nabil Khojah^3♦, Ethar Ahmed Alreheily³, Saeed Ahmad Halabieh³, Faisal Mohammed Khoshaim³, Asmaa Abdel Nasser^4,5

¹Family and Community Medicine Department, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Jeddah, KSA
²Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt
³Medical Students at Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
⁴Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt
⁵Medical Education Unit, Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Medical Students at Ibn Sina National College for Medical Studies, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: Obesity is a major community health problem worldwide including Saudi Arabia due to its high morbidity and mortality rates. About one third of the Saudi community has obesity. Objectives: To assess knowledge, attitude, and practice of Saudi population towards bariatric surgeries, determine the prevalence of these surgeries among population and identify side effects and factors affecting them. Methods: A cross-sectional study using a structured pre-coded closed-ended, pilot tested online questionnaire was used, which include demographic data, medical history, knowledge, attitude, and practice of bariatric surgeries targeting male and female Saudi participants aged more than 18 years. Descriptive statistics and a univariate analysis were used. Multivariate analyses forwarded stepwise method was conducted. Results: Mean knowledge score percent was 76.3% (22.28). Those with satisfactory knowledge have worse medical history (54.1%, p=0.035), more significant attitude aspects; with their overall score of 71.7% (p=0.012). Significant independent predictors of bariatric surgeries were age (adjusted OR=2.5, 95% CI=1.3, 5.9), work status (adjusted OR=1.6, 95% CI=1.1, 2.6), marital status (adjusted OR=3.3, 95% CI=1.6, 8.8), and BMI (adjusted OR=2.1, 95% CI=1.3, 3.5). Conclusion: Obesity is a major health problem accompanied by many hepatics, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and cardiac complications. Elective bariatric surgeries are the solutions selected by more than half of cases. Nevertheless, Saudi populations’ KAP towards bariatric surgeries regarding benefits, complications, indications, modalities are still unfavorable.

Keywords: KAP; Obesity; Bariatric surgeries; Saudi population, Gastric sleeve

Medical Science, 2021, 25(113), 1748-1757

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