Table 2 Awareness and knowledge towards family medicine among the included participants
From: Community perspective on family medicine and family physician in Saudi Arabia 2020
Variables | Chronic Illness | P-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yes | No | Total | ||||||
n | % | n | % | N | % | |||
Is there difference between family physician and general physician | No | 219 | 16.8 | 824 | 14.5 | 1043 | 15.0 | 0.035a |
Yes | 846 | 64.9 | 3885 | 68.5 | 4731 | 67.8 | ||
I don’t know | 238 | 18.3 | 962 | 17.0 | 1200 | 17.2 | ||
I don’t know about PHCCs | No | 1184 | 90.9 | 4996 | 88.1 | 6180 | 88.6 | 0.005 a |
Yes | 119 | 9.1 | 675 | 11.9 | 794 | 11.4 | ||
Family physician can only treat flu and refer you to other specialty | No | 398 | 30.5 | 1805 | 31.8 | 2203 | 31.6 | 0.013 a |
Yes | 497 | 38.1 | 1924 | 33.9 | 2421 | 34.7 | ||
I don’t know | 408 | 31.3 | 1942 | 34.2 | 2350 | 33.7 | ||
Number of family physician per Saudi families are | Enough | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.004 a |
Not enough | 793 | 60.9 | 3206 | 56.5 | 3999 | 57.3 | ||
I don’t know | 510 | 39.1 | 2465 | 43.5 | 2975 | 42.7 | ||
Family physician can treat the following | ||||||||
Chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension, osteoarthritis, etc.) | No | 623 | 47.8 | 3192 | 56.3 | 3815 | 54.7 | < 0.001 b |
Yes | 680 | 52.2 | 2479 | 43.7 | 3159 | 45.3 | ||
Acute disease (flu, gastroenteritis, urinary tract infection, etc.) | No | 878 | 67.4 | 3800 | 67.0 | 4678 | 67.1 | 0.795 |
Yes | 425 | 32.6 | 1871 | 33.0 | 2296 | 32.9 | ||
Gynecological diseases | No | 1192 | 91.5 | 5107 | 90.1 | 6299 | 90.3 | 0.116 |
Yes | 111 | 8.5 | 564 | 9.9 | 675 | 9.7 | ||
Pediatric diseases | No | 984 | 75.5 | 4209 | 74.2 | 5193 | 74.5 | 0.332 |
Yes | 319 | 24.5 | 1462 | 25.8 | 1781 | 25.5 | ||
Dermatological diseases | No | 1141 | 87.6 | 4978 | 87.8 | 6119 | 87.7 | 0.833 |
Yes | 162 | 12.4 | 693 | 12.2 | 855 | 12.3 | ||
Psychiatric illness | No | 1182 | 90.7 | 5080 | 89.6 | 6262 | 89.8 | 0.222 |
Yes | 121 | 9.3 | 591 | 10.4 | 712 | 10.2 | ||
Preventive vaccination | No | 848 | 65.1 | 3573 | 63.0 | 4421 | 63.4 | 0.161 |
Yes | 455 | 34.9 | 2098 | 37.0 | 2553 | 36.6 | ||
All the above | No | 957 | 73.4 | 3810 | 67.2 | 4767 | 68.4 | < 0.001 b |
Yes | 346 | 26.6 | 1861 | 32.8 | 2207 | 31.6 | ||
None of the above | No | 1203 | 92.3 | 5220 | 92.0 | 6423 | 92.1 | 0.737 |
Yes | 100 | 7.7 | 451 | 8.0 | 551 | 7.9 | ||
Can family physician manage emergency cases such as cardiac arrest? | No | 477 | 49.4 | 1966 | 47.5 | 2443 | 47.8 | 0.271 |
Yes | 488 | 50.6 | 2176 | 52.5 | 2664 | 52.2 | ||
Can family physician manage non-emergency cases such as simple wounds that don’t require suturing | No | 100 | 8.5 | 323 | 6.3 | 423 | 6.7 | 0.007 a |
Yes | 1072 | 91.5 | 4784 | 93.7 | 5856 | 93.3 | ||
Do your PHCCs have an urgent care clinic? | No | 520 | 57.9 | 1915 | 50.9 | 2435 | 52.2 | < 0.001 b |
Yes | 378 | 42.1 | 1850 | 49.1 | 2228 | 47.8 | ||
I don’t know | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
The role of family physician is not clearly understood | Strongly Agree | 374 | 28.7 | 1387 | 24.5 | 1761 | 25.3 | 0.012 a |
Agree | 372 | 28.5 | 1812 | 32.0 | 2184 | 31.3 | ||
Neutral | 334 | 25.6 | 1542 | 27.2 | 1876 | 26.9 | ||
Disagree | 164 | 12.6 | 687 | 12.1 | 851 | 12.2 | ||
Strongly Disagree | 59 | 4.5 | 243 | 4.3 | 302 | 4.3 | ||