Investigating the Practices of Patients and Hospitals in Treatment of Diabetes - A Survey Questionnaire for Arabic Speaking Countries

摘要

Background: Diabetes is one of the most chronic diseases prevalent in Kingdom of SaudiArabia. Its number of patients have increased in past few decades. Best efforts to provide world classtreatments to patients through public and private hospitals are in hand. However, feedback of practicesobserved by patients and hospitals is not being achieved to assess the treatment efficacy. Absence ofan elaborated questionnaire in Arabic language is a major hurdle to seek information from patients’due to their limited knowledge of English language in which most of the survey questionnaire exist ininternationally published literature.Conclusion: In present research one such questionnaire was adapted and translated into Arabic languagefor survey of patients in a local hospital. A total of 191 patients participated in this investigation.Results of findings are analyzed on the basis of demographics, diagnostics, tests and various aspects ofdiabetes self-management by patients.