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J. M. Darandari; S. K. AlDahi; F. Farahat
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4" xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.1/metadata.xsd"> <identifier identifierType="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.3461115</identifier> <creators> <creator> <creatorName>J. M. Darandari</creatorName> <affiliation>Prince Sultan Armed Forces Hospital, Taif, Saudi Arabia</affiliation> </creator> <creator> <creatorName>S. K. AlDahi</creatorName> <affiliation>Preventive Medicine Department, King Salman Armed Forces Hospial, Tabuk City, SA</affiliation> </creator> <creator> <creatorName>F. Farahat</creatorName> <affiliation>Community Medicine, Alhada Armed Forces Hospital, Taif.</affiliation> </creator> </creators> <titles> <title>Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Hyperbaric O2 Therapy in the Treatment of Chronic non-healing Wounds among Physicians</title> </titles> <publisher>Zenodo</publisher> <publicationYear>2019</publicationYear> <subjects> <subject>Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Transcutaneous Oxygen Tensions, Diabetic foot ulcer, chronic non-healing wounds, Attitude towards hyperbaric oxygen therapy, practice of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, diffusion of innovation</subject> </subjects> <dates> <date dateType="Issued">2019-09-25</date> </dates> <resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Text">Journal article</resourceType> <alternateIdentifiers> <alternateIdentifier alternateIdentifierType="url">https://zenodo.org/record/3461115</alternateIdentifier> </alternateIdentifiers> <relatedIdentifiers> <relatedIdentifier relatedIdentifierType="DOI" relationType="IsVersionOf">10.5281/zenodo.3461114</relatedIdentifier> </relatedIdentifiers> <rightsList> <rights rightsURI="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International</rights> <rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess">Open Access</rights> </rightsList> <descriptions> <description descriptionType="Abstract"><p>Hyperbaric Oxygen (HBO<sub>2</sub>) Therapy has been used for several decades as an adjunctive treatment to standard care for chronic non-healing wounds. However, very little is known about the factors that influenced physicians use of this mode of therapy in their practice. 1st: To assess Physicians Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of HBO<sub>2</sub> Therapy in the treatment of chronic non-healing wounds among physicians, whose practice included wound care, in the Saudi Armed Forces Hospitals during the year 2008. 2nd: To identify the factors associated with their Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of HBO<sub>2</sub> Therapy.<em> </em>110 Physicians participated in a Cross sectional study with an analytical component. Data collection tool was 21-item questionnaire. All of the 110 physicians participated in the study. The results showed that Practice of HBO<sub>2</sub> Therapy was adopted by only a minority (7.3%; 95% C. I = 3.7 &ndash; 13.7) of Physicians who were concentrated in the eastern province. This was despite that the majority of physicians had a high Knowledge (76%; 95% C.I = 76.4&ndash;83.5) and agreed (61.9%; 95% C.I = 52.4&ndash;70.6) with the use of HBO<sub>2</sub> Therapy. Physicians Knowledge was significantly associated with the dependence on various sources of information to stay informed about the evidence of wound care treatment. Physicians Attitude towards HBO<sub>2</sub> Therapy was significantly associated with their Knowledge (P &lt;0.05). Physicians Practice of HBO<sub>2</sub> Therapy was significantly associated with Patients voluntary request of HBO<sub>2</sub> Therapy (P= 0.006), Symposia was a source of information to stay informed about the evidence of wound care treatments (P= 0.007).<em> </em>The low level of Physicians Practice, in contrast to their high Knowledge of and Attitude towards, HBO<sub>2</sub> Therapy in the treatment of chronic non-healing wounds, in the Saudi Armed Forces Hospitals, was mainly due to the unavailability (except in Jubail) and inaccessibility of HBO<sub>2</sub> Therapy despite the availability of multiplace HBO<sub>2</sub> Chambers. It is suggested that Policy procedures and protocols for use of (or referral for) HBO<sub>2</sub> Therapy to be implemented. Also educating both Patients and Physicians and focusing on cost-effectiveness most probably will encourage future use of HBO<sub>2</sub> Therapy.</p></description> </descriptions> </resource>
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