Obstructive sleep apnea knowledge and attitudes among recent medical graduates training in Ecuador
Abstract Background We aimed to assess recent Latin American medical school graduates’ knowledge and attitudes about OSA and examine whether their knowledge and attitudes about OSA differed from practicing physicians. Methods Recent medical graduates completed the Spanish translation of the OSA Know...
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| author | Iván Chérrez-Ojeda Juan Carlos Calderón Andrea Fernández García Donna B. Jeffe Ilka Santoro Emanuel Vanegas Annia Cherrez José Cano Freddy Betancourt Daniel Simancas-Racines |
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| description | Abstract Background We aimed to assess recent Latin American medical school graduates’ knowledge and attitudes about OSA and examine whether their knowledge and attitudes about OSA differed from practicing physicians. Methods Recent medical graduates completed the Spanish translation of the OSA Knowledge and Attitudes (OSAKA) questionnaire at the 2013 national primary-care residency-placement meeting in Ecuador. The OSAKA includes 18 knowledge and five attitudinal items about OSA. We compared recent graduates’ data with data collected in 2010–2011 from practicing physicians using chi-square tests of associations among categorical variables and analysis of variance of differences in mean knowledge and attitude scores. Unadjusted logistic regression models tested the odds that recent graduates (vs. practicing physicians) answered each item correctly. Results Of 265 recent graduates, 138 (52.1%) were male, and mean age was 25.9 years. Although mean knowledge was low overall, scores were lower for recent graduates than for the 367 practicing physicians (53.5% vs. 60.4%; p < 0.001). Practicing physicians were significantly more likely to answer specific items correctly with one exception—recent graduates were more likely to know that < 5 apneas-hypopneas/h is normal (OR 1.47, 1.03–2.07). Physicians in practice attributed greater importance to OSA as clinical disorder and the need for identifying patients with OSA; but recent graduates reported greater confidence in managing patients with OSA and CPAP. Conclusions OSA-focused educational interventions during medical school should help to improve recent medical graduates’ abilities to diagnose and treat OSA. We recommend a greater number of hours of medical students’ exposure to sleep education. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-43d0037905894b0aa464df5503593b362024-03-02T23:53:16ZengPAGEPress PublicationsMultidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine2049-69582018-02-011311810.1186/s40248-018-0117-8Obstructive sleep apnea knowledge and attitudes among recent medical graduates training in EcuadorIván Chérrez-Ojeda0Juan Carlos Calderón1Andrea Fernández García2Donna B. Jeffe3Ilka Santoro4Emanuel Vanegas5Annia Cherrez6José Cano7Freddy Betancourt8Daniel Simancas-Racines9Universidad Espiritu SantoUniversidad Espiritu SantoRespiralab Research Group, RespiralabDepartment of Medicine, Washington University School of MedicineDepartment of Medicine, University Federal of Sao PauloUniversidad Espiritu SantoSchool of Medicine, University of HeidelbergUniversidad Espiritu SantoRespiralab Research Group, RespiralabCentro de Investigación en Salud Pública y Epidemiologia Clínica, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud Eugenio Espejo, Universidad Tecnológica EquinoccialAbstract Background We aimed to assess recent Latin American medical school graduates’ knowledge and attitudes about OSA and examine whether their knowledge and attitudes about OSA differed from practicing physicians. Methods Recent medical graduates completed the Spanish translation of the OSA Knowledge and Attitudes (OSAKA) questionnaire at the 2013 national primary-care residency-placement meeting in Ecuador. The OSAKA includes 18 knowledge and five attitudinal items about OSA. We compared recent graduates’ data with data collected in 2010–2011 from practicing physicians using chi-square tests of associations among categorical variables and analysis of variance of differences in mean knowledge and attitude scores. Unadjusted logistic regression models tested the odds that recent graduates (vs. practicing physicians) answered each item correctly. Results Of 265 recent graduates, 138 (52.1%) were male, and mean age was 25.9 years. Although mean knowledge was low overall, scores were lower for recent graduates than for the 367 practicing physicians (53.5% vs. 60.4%; p < 0.001). Practicing physicians were significantly more likely to answer specific items correctly with one exception—recent graduates were more likely to know that < 5 apneas-hypopneas/h is normal (OR 1.47, 1.03–2.07). Physicians in practice attributed greater importance to OSA as clinical disorder and the need for identifying patients with OSA; but recent graduates reported greater confidence in managing patients with OSA and CPAP. Conclusions OSA-focused educational interventions during medical school should help to improve recent medical graduates’ abilities to diagnose and treat OSA. We recommend a greater number of hours of medical students’ exposure to sleep education.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40248-018-0117-8Obstructive sleep apneaMedical studentKnowledgePhysicianQuestionnaireOSAKA |
| spellingShingle | Iván Chérrez-Ojeda Juan Carlos Calderón Andrea Fernández García Donna B. Jeffe Ilka Santoro Emanuel Vanegas Annia Cherrez José Cano Freddy Betancourt Daniel Simancas-Racines Obstructive sleep apnea knowledge and attitudes among recent medical graduates training in Ecuador Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine Obstructive sleep apnea Medical student Knowledge Physician Questionnaire OSAKA |
| title | Obstructive sleep apnea knowledge and attitudes among recent medical graduates training in Ecuador |
| title_full | Obstructive sleep apnea knowledge and attitudes among recent medical graduates training in Ecuador |
| title_fullStr | Obstructive sleep apnea knowledge and attitudes among recent medical graduates training in Ecuador |
| title_full_unstemmed | Obstructive sleep apnea knowledge and attitudes among recent medical graduates training in Ecuador |
| title_short | Obstructive sleep apnea knowledge and attitudes among recent medical graduates training in Ecuador |
| title_sort | obstructive sleep apnea knowledge and attitudes among recent medical graduates training in ecuador |
| topic | Obstructive sleep apnea Medical student Knowledge Physician Questionnaire OSAKA |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40248-018-0117-8 |
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