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45.Knowledge, Practices and Attitudes of Medical Students Towards Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Cross Sectional Study

Adil Shah Roghani1, Jibran Umar Ayub Khan2, Intikhab Alam3, Abdul Wahab2, Syeda Iffat2 and  Shumail Younas2

ABSTRACT

Objective: To assess the knowledge, practices and attitudes of medical students towards irritable bowel syndrome.

Study Design: A Cross Sectional Study

Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted at the MMC General Hospital Peshawar from January 2023 to June 2023.

Materials and Methods: The medical students attending the clinical wards were in the inclusion criteria and people from other disciplines like paramedics and nurses were excluded from the study. Total sample size was 100 and method used was non-probability convenient sampling. The responses of the participants were recorded through a validated questionnaire. The data was analyzed by SPSS version 22. Descriptive statistics were applied and the frequencies and percentages were applied were applied for categorical data whereas Mean and SD were applied for quantitative data. The Che Square test was applied taking a p value of 0.05 or less as significant.

Results: The mean age of the patient is 23.78 with a standard error of mean .152.63% of participants were medical and allied while 33% were from surgical and allied .48% of the participants were men while 52% of them were females The responses were assessed in terms of strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree and strongly disagree . IBS requires good compliance to drugs by physicians, the females had better knowledge perception and attitude as reflected by the bar chart. IBS is more common than chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. There was an equal response in terms of awareness of the participants with 31 % of saying it as true 37% perceiving it as false and 33% saying do not know.

Conclusion: This study shows that medical students have overall good knowledge, perception and attitude of IBS as a disease.

Key Words: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Perception

 

Citation of article: Roghani AS, Khan JUA, Alam I, Wahab A, Iffat S, Younas S. Knowledge, Practices and Attitudes of Medical Students Towards Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Cross Sectional Study. Med Forum 2023;34(8):193-198.doi:10.60110/medforum.340845.