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Editorial
A. Abyad (Chief Editor)
DOI:
10.5742MEWFM.2019.93652
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Original Contribution
Knowledge
and Attitudes of Health Care Workers Towards
HIV Patients in south western Saudi Arabia:
25 years after the initial report
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version]
Hasan M. Alzahrani, Nabil J. Awadalla, Rawan
A. Hadi, Fahd H. AlTameem, Mona H. Alkhayri,
Amal Y. Moshebah, Abdulaziz H. Alqarni, Faisal
E. Al-Salateen, Abdulrahman A. Alqahtani,
Ahmad A. Mahfouz
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2019.93653
Quality
of Life and its predictors among Qatari Elderly
Attending Primary Health Care Centers in Qatar
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version]
Maha Hammam Alshamali, Mohamed M. Makhlouf,
Mervat Rady, Nagah Abdel Aziz Selim, Mansoura
Fawaz Salem Ismail
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2019.93654
Population and Community
Studies
Safety of hydroxyurea in sickle cell diseases
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version]
Mehmet Rami Helvaci, Onder Tonyali, Mustafa
Yaprak, Abdulrazak Abyad, Lesley Pocock
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2019.93656
The
Effectiveness of ACT Treatment in Reducing the
Symptoms of Depression in Patients with Epilepsy
[pdf
version]
Faezeh Alipour
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2019.93655
Society
The Status of women in Baluchi epics
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version]
Abdolsamad Hamidi Far,
Habib Jadid-ol-eslami Ghale no
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2019.93659
Education and Training
Case
Study – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Robert Di Nicolantonio, Lea Delbridge, Peter
Harris, Bill Kelly
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2019.93657
Case
study – Pyloric stenosis
Robert Di Nicolantonio, Lea Delbridge, Peter
Harris, Bill Kelly
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2019.93658
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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice
of Health Care Workers Towards HIV Patients
at Primary Health Care level in southwestern
Saudi Arabia: Twenty-five years after the initial
report
Hasan
M. Alzahrani (1)
Nabil J. Awadalla (2,3)
Rawan A. Hadi (4)
Fahd H. AlTameem (5)
Mona H. Alkhayri (4)
Amal Y. Moshebah (4)
Abdulaziz H. Alqarni (4)
Faisal E. Al-Salateen (4)
Abdulrahman A. Alqahtani (4)
Ahmad A. Mahfouz (2,6)
(1) Department of Emergency Medicine, King Khalid
University Medical City, Abha, Saudi Arabia
(2) Department of Family and Community Medicine,
College of Medicine, King Khalid University,
Abha, Saudi Arabia
(3) Department of Community Medicine, College
of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt
(4) Medical Intern/student, College of Medicine,
King Khalid University, Abha
(5) Ahad Rafidah Hospital, Saudi Arabia
(6) Department of Epidemiology, High Institute
of Public Health, Alexandria University, Egypt
Correspondence:
Professor Ahmad A. Mahfouz
Department of Family and Community Medicine,
College of Medicine,
King Khalid University, Abha,
Saudi Arabia
Email: mahfouz2005@gmail.com
Received: April 2019; Accepted: May 2019; Published:
June 1, 2019. Citation: Hasan Alzahrani et al.
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Health Care
Workers Towards HIV Patients at Primary Health
Care level in southwestern Saudi Arabia: Twenty-five
years after the initial report. World Family
Medicine. 2019; 17(6): 4-8. DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2019.93653
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Abstract
The objective of the present study was
to critically review the existing knowledge,
attitude and practices of HCWs towards
HIV. A cross-sectional study was conducted
in Primary Health Care centers in Abha
and Khamis Mushait cities of Aseer region,
southwestern Saudi Arabia. All HCWs (physicians,
nurses, lab technicians and dentists)
were invited to participate in the study.
A validated self-administered structured
questionnaire was used to collect data
about HCWs’ personal and professional
characteristics; knowledge of HIV infection
and transmission; attitudes towards HIV/AIDS
patients and practices. A total of 372
HCWs were included in the study. Out of
them 23.9% were unable to identify tattooing
and ear piercing as methods for transmission.
A considerable proportion failed to mention
blood transfusion (3.8%), unprotected
sex (6.7%) and uncleanneedles (4.0%) as
possible methods for disease transmission.
Additionally, 36.8% of HCWs have a misconception
that kissing could transmit HIV and about
misbelieved that sharing eating and drinking
utensils (23.1%), swimming pool (18.8%)
and living with AIDs patients (17.5%)
could transmit infection. Stigmatizing
attitude was detected. In conclusion,
poor knowledge and stigmatizing attitude
toward HIV patients are evident in HCWs.
Health education programs should be adopted
to improve HCWs’ knowledge about
transmission mode and combat HIV stigma.
Key words:
HIV/AIDS; healthcare workers, Knowledge,
attitude, stigma, Saudi Arabia
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