Table 3 Experience and attitudes 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 | % | |||
Number of times you visited your family physician this year | 0 | 723 | 55.5 | 4089 | 72.1 | 4812 | 69.0 | < 0.001 b |
1–3 | 402 | 30.9 | 1270 | 22.4 | 1672 | 24.0 | ||
> 4 | 178 | 13.7 | 312 | 5.5 | 490 | 7.0 | ||
Do you trust family physicians | Yes | 934 | 88.2 | 4068 | 89.7 | 5002 | 89.4 | 0.146 |
No | 125 | 11.8 | 466 | 10.3 | 591 | 10.6 | ||
Opinion about the PHCCs | ||||||||
Staff are lacking knowledge | No | 1035 | 79.4 | 4558 | 80.4 | 5593 | 80.2 | 0.442 |
Yes | 268 | 20.6 | 1113 | 19.6 | 1381 | 19.8 | ||
Lacking staff | No | 962 | 73.8 | 4268 | 75.3 | 5230 | 75.0 | 0.282 |
Yes | 341 | 26.2 | 1403 | 24.7 | 1744 | 25.0 | ||
Difficult to open file | No | 1152 | 88.4 | 5178 | 91.3 | 6330 | 90.8 | 0.001 a |
Yes | 151 | 11.6 | 493 | 8.7 | 644 | 9.2 | ||
Long waiting hours | No | 1023 | 78.5 | 4439 | 78.3 | 5462 | 78.3 | 0.852 |
Yes | 280 | 21.5 | 1232 | 21.7 | 1512 | 21.7 | ||
No proper facility (labs/radiology. Etc.) | No | 930 | 71.4 | 4039 | 71.2 | 4969 | 71.3 | 0.913 |
Yes | 373 | 28.6 | 1632 | 28.8 | 2005 | 28.7 | ||
Nothing wrong with our PHCCs | No | 628 | 48.2 | 2673 | 47.1 | 3301 | 47.3 | 0.489 |
Yes | 675 | 51.8 | 2998 | 52.9 | 3673 | 52.7 | ||
Do you prefer visiting emergency department or PHCC? | Emergency department | 693 | 53.2 | 3066 | 54.1 | 3759 | 53.9 | 0.566 |
Primary health care center | 610 | 46.8 | 2605 | 45.9 | 3215 | 46.1 | ||
Don’t see any need for PHCCs | Strongly Agree | 82 | 6.3 | 266 | 4.7 | 348 | 5.0 | 0.008 a |
Agree | 95 | 7.3 | 343 | 6.0 | 438 | 6.3 | ||
Neutral | 266 | 20.4 | 1049 | 18.5 | 1315 | 18.9 | ||
Disagree | 386 | 29.6 | 1767 | 31.2 | 2153 | 30.9 | ||
Strongly Disagree | 474 | 36.4 | 2246 | 39.6 | 2720 | 39.0 | ||
Do you visit PHCC just to get referrals? | No | 670 | 51.4 | 2859 | 50.4 | 3529 | 50.6 | 0.012 a |
Yes | 424 | 32.5 | 1708 | 30.1 | 2132 | 30.6 | ||
I don’t visit primary health care center | 209 | 16.0 | 1104 | 19.5 | 1313 | 18.8 | ||
Do you approach easily to PHCC and have easy access to your neighbor center? | No | 220 | 16.9 | 790 | 13.9 | 1010 | 14.5 | 0.021 a |
Yes | 885 | 67.9 | 3957 | 69.8 | 4842 | 69.4 | ||
I don’t visit primary health care center | 198 | 15.2 | 924 | 16.3 | 1122 | 16.1 | ||