AWARENESS OF SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS IN SPONDYLOARTHRITIS AMONG FAMILY PHYSICIANS IN EDIRNE CITY CENTER
| العنوان: | AWARENESS OF SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS IN SPONDYLOARTHRITIS AMONG FAMILY PHYSICIANS IN EDIRNE CITY CENTER |
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| المؤلفون: | Berfin Tan, Barış Yılmazer, Alperen Taha Certel, Ayşe Çaylan, Hilal Sena Çifcibaşı, Aslı Göztepe |
| المصدر: | Volume: 6, Issue: 2 54-59 Turkish Medical Student Journal |
| بيانات النشر: | Trakya Üniversitesi, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, Referral, business.industry, Back pain, Disease, Spearman Correlation Test, Rheumatology, Tıp, Quartile, Quality of life, arthritis, Back pain,arthritis, Family medicine, Internal medicine, Mann–Whitney U test, medicine, Medicine, medicine.symptom, business |
| الوصف: | DergiPark: 584645 tmsj Aims: The aim of this study is to evaluate the knowledge of signs and symptoms of spondyloarthritis among family physiciansworking in Family Health Centers in Edirne. Methods: In this study, a questionnaire consisting of 17 questions were applied tothe family physicians working in the Family Health Centers of Edirne Province. The data were analyzed using non-parametricSpearman Correlation test and Mann-Whitney U test on IBM SPSS version 20.0. Results: The total number of subjects in thestudy was 45. All subjects’ median age was 47 years (1st quartile, 42 years; 3rd quartile, 51 years). Five of the participants werefamily medicine specialist. The median duration of medical practice was 20 years (1st quartile, 13 years; 3rd quartile, 25.5 years).Four of the participants were trained in rheumatology. The median number of patients examined by the participants was 60 perday (1st quartile, 47.5; 3rd quartile, 70). Forty-one of the participants stated that they referred patients with back pain to thehospital for further examination. The median number of referral percentage was 15 (1st quartile, 5; 3rd quartile, 25). Conclusion:Spondyloarthritis is a disease that is diagnosed too late and reduces patients’ quality of life. In this study, it was investigated whichfactors could be related to spondyloarthritis awareness of family physicians in a limited area. The most important output of this isstudy is the relation between referrals to rheumatology and awareness of spondyloarthritis. These parameters are related to eachother and the physician. Keywords: Back pain, arthritis, family physicians |
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| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2148-4724 2548-0030 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::603a344f2bf4ba3cc73e662d6900e563 https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tmsj/issue/46557/584645 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....603a344f2bf4ba3cc73e662d6900e563 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 21484724 25480030 |
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