Volume 26, Issue 119, January 2022

Knowledge, attitude and practice of bariatric surgery among primary care physicians in Riyadh, 2020

Arwa Abdulsalam Alkhuraiji^1,2, Rema Saad Almohanna^1,2, Mohammed Hamad Aldebasi^2,3, Nouf Abdulaziz Altwaijri⁴, Imad Abdulmajeed^2,5, Raghad Saleh Alharbi⁶, Taghreed Mohammed Al Hazmi^2,3♦

¹College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
²King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
³National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
⁴King Khalid university hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
⁵Family Medicine and PHC, Ministry of National Guard- Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
⁶College of medicine, Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; National Guard Health Affairs, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Objectives: This study aimed to determine knowledge, attitude and practice of bariatric surgery among PHCP’s in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Methods: From September to December 2020, a 43-question questionnaire was developed and delivered to all PHCPs practicing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, using social sites and participants' emails (n= 202). Results: One hundred thirty people answered. Male respondents made up 84.6 percent of those who assessed their BMI at each visit (p=0.037). Males were also more likely to initiate or refer to bariatric surgery discussions (p=0.001 and p=0.028, respectively). More than half of the participants had little understanding about bariatric surgery, with those older than 30 years old and with more than 5 years of experience having the most knowledge (p= 0.009, p= 0.012). Physicians who encounter patients between 11 and 20 hours each day and work in primary care clinics had a positive attitude (p=0.005, p=0.043). Conclusions: Overall, male participants performed better in primary care for obese individuals. A knowledge gap concerning the function of bariatric surgeries has been discovered, particularly among younger physicians.

Keywords: primary health care physicians, obesity, Bariatric surgery, Knowledge, Attitude, Perception

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms10e2011

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i119/ms10e2011

Published: 5 January 2022